On Thu, Nov 03, 2022 at 04:26:14PM +0000, Eric Biggers wrote: > > In other words, STATX_DIOALIGN is unusable from the start because we > > don't know whether the information it returns is actually correct? :-/ > > That's a silly point of view. STATX_DIOALIGN has only been in a released > kernel > for a few weeks (v6.0), the bug is only in one edge case, and it will get > fixed > quickly and backported to v6.0.y where users of 6.0 will get it.
Actually, scratch that. STATX_DIOALIGN is in 6.1, not 6.0. So it hasn't even been released yet. Upstream is currently on v6.1-rc3. So thank you for reporting (or for not reporting?) this. We'll make sure it gets fixed before release :-) - Eric