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From: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
To: Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com>
Cc: david@fromorbit.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	amir73il@gmail.com,  chris@chrisdown.name, hannes@cmpxchg.org,
	hughd@google.com,  jlayton@kernel.org, kernel-team@fb.com,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,  linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, tj@kernel.org,  viro@zeniv.linux.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 2/2] tmpfs: Support 64-bit inums per-sb
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2020 22:58:52 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.2.11.2001122253550.3471@eggly.anvils> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200108143752.9475-1-mikachu@gmail.com>

On Wed, 8 Jan 2020, Mikael Magnusson wrote:
> 
> It's unfortunately not true that everything handles this correctly.
> 32-bit binaries for games on Steam that use stat() without the 64 is
> so prevalent that I got tired of adding the LD_PRELOAD wrapper script
> and just patched out the EOVERFLOW return from glibc instead. (They
> obviously don't care about the inode value at all, and I don't use any
> other 32-bit binaries that do). This is probably a class of binaries
> you don't care very much about, and not very likely to be installed on
> a tmpfs that has wrapped around, but I thought it was worth mentioning
> that they do exist anyway.

Thank you for alerting us to reality, Mikael: not what any of us wanted
to hear, but we do care about them, and it was well worth mentioning.

Hugh


      reply	other threads:[~2020-01-13  6:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-05 12:05 [PATCH v5 0/2] fs: inode: shmem: Reduce risk of inum overflow Chris Down
2020-01-05 12:06 ` [PATCH v5 1/2] tmpfs: Add per-superblock i_ino support Chris Down
2020-01-06  2:03   ` zhengbin (A)
2020-01-06  6:41     ` Amir Goldstein
2020-01-07  8:01       ` Hugh Dickins
2020-01-07  8:35         ` Amir Goldstein
2020-01-08 10:58           ` Hugh Dickins
2020-01-08 12:51             ` Amir Goldstein
2020-01-06 13:17     ` Chris Down
2020-01-05 12:06 ` [PATCH v5 2/2] tmpfs: Support 64-bit inums per-sb Chris Down
2020-01-07  0:10   ` Dave Chinner
2020-01-07  0:16     ` Chris Down
2020-01-07  0:39       ` Dave Chinner
2020-01-07  6:54         ` Amir Goldstein
2020-01-07  8:36           ` Hugh Dickins
2020-01-07 10:12             ` Amir Goldstein
2020-01-07 21:07               ` Dave Chinner
2020-01-07 21:37                 ` Chris Mason
2020-01-08 11:24                   ` Hugh Dickins
2020-01-09  0:43                     ` Jeff Layton
2020-01-10 16:45                     ` Chris Down
2020-01-13  7:36                       ` Hugh Dickins
2020-01-20 15:11                         ` Chris Down
2020-02-25 23:14                           ` Hugh Dickins
2020-01-07 20:59             ` Dave Chinner
2020-01-08 14:37     ` Mikael Magnusson
2020-01-13  6:58       ` Hugh Dickins [this message]

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