All of lore.kernel.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Mikhail Efremov <sem@altlinux.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] vfs: Don't exchange "short" filenames unconditionally.
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 19:55:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140924185521.GC7996@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1411582473-29184-1-git-send-email-sem@altlinux.org>

On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 10:14:33PM +0400, Mikhail Efremov wrote:
> Only exchange source and destination filenames
> if flags contain RENAME_EXCHANGE.
> In case if executable file was running and replaced by
> other file /proc/PID/exe should still show correct file name,
> not the old name of the file by which it was replaced.

Yecchhhh...  Applied, but it's very ugly.  Oh, well - regression is
regression, and I don't see a cleaner fix at the moment.  If I don't
manage to come up with anything prettier, to Linus it goes in tonight
pull request ;-/

  reply	other threads:[~2014-09-24 18:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-24 18:14 [PATCH v2] vfs: Don't exchange "short" filenames unconditionally Mikhail Efremov
2014-09-24 18:55 ` Al Viro [this message]
2014-09-24 19:20   ` Linus Torvalds
2014-09-24 19:27     ` Linus Torvalds
2014-09-24 20:18     ` Al Viro
2014-09-25  4:46       ` Al Viro
2014-09-26 16:44         ` Al Viro
2014-09-27  4:45           ` Al Viro
2014-09-27 17:56             ` Linus Torvalds
2014-09-27 18:31               ` Al Viro
2014-09-27 19:16                 ` Al Viro
2014-09-27 19:37                   ` Linus Torvalds
2014-09-27 19:39                     ` Linus Torvalds
2014-09-27 19:49                       ` Al Viro
2014-09-27 19:55                         ` Linus Torvalds
2014-09-27 21:48                           ` [git pull] vfs.git for 3.17-rc7 Al Viro
2014-09-27 19:45                   ` [PATCH v2] vfs: Don't exchange "short" filenames unconditionally Al Viro
2014-09-28  7:47                   ` Al Viro
2014-09-28 18:05                     ` Al Viro
2014-09-28 21:51                       ` Al Viro
2014-09-29  1:06                         ` [PATCH] missing data dependency barrier in prepend_name() Al Viro
2014-09-29 15:15                       ` [PATCH v2] vfs: Don't exchange "short" filenames unconditionally Linus Torvalds
2014-09-29 15:59                         ` Al Viro
2014-09-29 16:07                           ` Linus Torvalds
2014-09-29 16:27                             ` Al Viro
2014-09-29 17:54                               ` Linus Torvalds
2014-09-29 19:04                                 ` Al Viro
2014-09-29 20:45                                   ` Linus Torvalds
2014-09-29 18:42                       ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-10-01  0:16                         ` Al Viro
2014-10-02  5:38                           ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-10-02 10:35                           ` Chuck Ebbert
2014-10-03  2:11                             ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-09-29 13:16                     ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-09-29 15:04                       ` Al Viro
2014-09-28 15:01               ` Mikhail Efremov
2014-09-26 20:23         ` Al Viro

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20140924185521.GC7996@ZenIV.linux.org.uk \
    --to=viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk \
    --cc=linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=mszeredi@suse.cz \
    --cc=sem@altlinux.org \
    --cc=stable@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=torvalds@linux-foundation.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.