linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] stat: fix inconsistency between struct stat and struct compat

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Date:   Tue, 12 Apr 2022 13:25:02 -1000
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@...hat.com>
Cc:     Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] stat: fix inconsistency between struct stat and struct compat_stat

On Tue, Apr 12, 2022 at 7:42 AM Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@...hat.com> wrote:
>
> As long as both major and minor numbers are less than 256, these functions
> return equivalent results. So, I think it's safe to replace old_encode_dev
> with new_encode_dev.

You are of course 100% right, and I should have looked more closely at
the code rather than going by my (broken) assumptions based on old
memory of what we did when we did that "new" stat expansion.

I take back all my objections that were completely bogus.

             Linus