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Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2023 14:27:50 -0400
From: Jeff Layton <jlayton@...nel.org>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@...sik.fu-berlin.de>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
Viacheslav Dubeyko <slava@...eyko.com>,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
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Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
christian.brauner@...ntu.com,
Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@...nsource.wdc.com>,
Linux FS Devel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
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ZhangPeng <zhangpeng362@...wei.com>,
linux-m68k@...ts.linux-m68k.org,
debian-ports <debian-ports@...ts.debian.org>
Subject: Re: [syzbot] [hfs?] WARNING in hfs_write_inode
On Thu, 2023-07-20 at 18:59 +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 20, 2023 at 07:50:47PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> > > Then we should delete the HFS/HFS+ filesystems. They're orphaned in
> > > MAINTAINERS and if distros are going to do such a damnfool thing,
> > > then we must stop them.
> >
> > Both HFS and HFS+ work perfectly fine. And if distributions or users are so
> > sensitive about security, it's up to them to blacklist individual features
> > in the kernel.
> >
> > Both HFS and HFS+ have been the default filesystem on MacOS for 30 years
> > and I don't think it's justified to introduce such a hard compatibility
> > breakage just because some people are worried about theoretical evil
> > maid attacks.
> >
> > HFS/HFS+ mandatory if you want to boot Linux on a classic Mac or PowerMac
> > and I don't think it's okay to break all these systems running Linux.
>
> If they're so popular, then it should be no trouble to find somebody
> to volunteer to maintain those filesystems. Except they've been
> marked as orphaned since 2011 and effectively were orphaned several
> years before that (the last contribution I see from Roman Zippel is
> in 2008, and his last contribution to hfs was in 2006).
I suspect that this is one of those catch-22 situations: distros are
going to enable every feature under the sun. That doesn't mean that
anyone is actually _using_ them these days.
Is "staging" still a thing? Maybe we should move these drivers into the
staging directory and pick a release where we'll sunset it, and then see
who comes out of the woodwork?
Cheers,
--
Jeff Layton <jlayton@...nel.org>
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