On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 03:35:36PM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
> It was brought to my attention that this bug from 2018 was
> still unresolved: 32 bit emulators like QEMU were given
> 64 bit hashes when running 32 bit emulation on 64 bit systems.
>
> This adds a fcntl() operation to set the underlying filesystem
> into 32bit mode even if the file hanle was opened using 64bit
> mode without the compat syscalls.
s/hanle/handle/
The API that you've proposed as a way to set the 32-bit mode, but
there is no way to clear the 32-bit mode, nor there is a way to get
the current status mode.
My suggestion is to add a flag bit for F_GETFD and F_SETFD (set and
get file descriptor flags). Currently the only file descriptor flag
is FD_CLOEXEC, so why not add a FD_32BIT_MODE bit?
Cheers,
- Ted
