I’m not a kernel developer, but it does seem weird to remove the legacy function in the same patch as the replacement function is shipped.
That said, isn’t it fairly easy to install a modified kernel? Or is that hard on Ubuntu for some reason? I suppose it’s to do with official support cycles and patches, so that’s only really a viable fix if the distro manages to kernel options, to ensure timelines with security patches and commercial support.
Most servers are most likely on LTS distros and won’t be affected by this bug.
Interestingly it seems the first rule of kernel development, we don’t break user space should apply here.
I’m not a kernel developer, but it does seem weird to remove the legacy function in the same patch as the replacement function is shipped.
That said, isn’t it fairly easy to install a modified kernel? Or is that hard on Ubuntu for some reason? I suppose it’s to do with official support cycles and patches, so that’s only really a viable fix if the distro manages to kernel options, to ensure timelines with security patches and commercial support.
yeah i’m running a lts distro but keep the kernel up to date, it’s super simple, there’s even gui apps for it