linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] statx: Kill fd-with-NULL-path support in favour of AT_EMPTY

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Date:   Thu, 27 Apr 2017 13:53:47 +0200
From:   "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@...il.com>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        linux-man <linux-man@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux API <linux-api@...r.kernel.org>,
        Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...deen.net>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        fstests <fstests@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@...il.com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] statx: Kill fd-with-NULL-path support in favour of AT_EMPTY_PATH

On 27 April 2017 at 00:03, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 2:15 PM, David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com> wrote:
>> [!] NOTE: This breaks UAPI introduced in 4.11-rc1.
>
> Ugh.
>
> I'm, applying this now, so that we don't end up with a released kernel
> that supports the NULL filename thing.
>
> I'm not happy about the timing though. And I hope nobody started using
> statx() outside of tests.

Agreed on the timing. Late review on my part didn't help.

But, also, David's fix is not quite right. I will send a patch.

Cheers,

Michael

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