On Wed, Oct 18, 2023 at 1:40 PM Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Unfortunately, this has not held up in LTSes without causing > > regressions, specifically in crun: > > > > Crun issue and patch > > 1. https://github.com/containers/crun/issues/1308 > > 2. https://github.com/containers/crun/pull/1309 > > So thre's a fix already for this, they agree that symlinks shouldn't > have modes, so what's the issue? The problem is that it breaks crun in Debian stable. They have fixed the issue in crun, but that patch may not be backported to Debian's stable version. In other words the patch seems to break existing software in the wild. > It needs to reverted in Linus's tree first, otherwise you will hit the > same problem when moving to a new kernel. Okay, I'll raise the issue on the linux kernel mailing list. > > P.S. apologies for not having the correct threading headers. I am not on > > the list. > > You can always grab the mail on lore.kernel.org and respond to it there, > you are trying to dig up a months old email and we don't really have any > context at all (I had to go to lore to figure it out...) Thanks, I'll do that next time.
