On Wed, Oct 18, 2023 at 01:49:44PM -0500, Jesse Hathaway wrote: > 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 will be backported to Debian stable if the kernel in Debian stable has this change in it, right? That should be simple to get accepted. thanks, greg k-h
