On Tue, Feb 06, 2018 at 03:38:09PM -0800, Eric Biggers wrote:
> I don't think backporting this change for other filesystems is particularly
> important, since if I understand correctly, the reasons that Al made the
> change
> originally were:
>
> - to allow following symlinks in RCU mode, but that's not implemented in old
> kernels
Yup.
> - to prevent a process from using up all kmaps and deadlocking the system,
> which
> I'm not sure is a real problem (someone would need to try to put together a
> reproducer), but if so it would probably just be a local device of service.
.. and *that's* only a problem on 32-bit systems. And aside from
Android, it's unclear to me how much we need to support 32-bit systems
on upstream LTS kernels. I suppose there might be Rasperry PI's which
are 32-bits and which might want to use btrfs. Personally I'm not
sure we should care all that much, but others who care more about LTS
kernels and 32-bit systems might have a different opinion.
> Also if we actually backported the full commit there are follow-on fixes such
> as
> e8ecde25f5e that would be needed as well but might be missed.
Good point.
- Ted
