From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
To: cluster-devel.redhat.com
Subject: [Cluster-devel] Re: [fuse-devel] [PATCH 01/25] VFS: move attr_kill logic from notify_change into helper function
Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2007 15:04:23 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1186427063.6616.59.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1II7JR-0005BN-00@dorka.pomaz.szeredi.hu>
On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 20:28 +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> Your patch is changing the API in a very unsafe way, since there will
> be no error or warning on an unconverted fs. And that could lead to
> security holes.
>
> If we would rename the setattr method to setattr_new as well as
> changing it's behavior, that would be fine. But I guess we do not
> want to do that.
Which "unconverted fses"? If we're talking out of tree stuff, then too
bad: it is _their_ responsibility to keep up with kernel changes.
Trond
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-06 19:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-06 13:54 [Cluster-devel] [PATCH 01/25] VFS: move attr_kill logic from notify_change into helper function Jeff Layton
[not found] ` <E1II6cM-0004yj-00@dorka.pomaz.szeredi.hu>
2007-08-06 18:13 ` [Cluster-devel] Re: [fuse-devel] " Jeff Layton
[not found] ` <E1II7JR-0005BN-00@dorka.pomaz.szeredi.hu>
2007-08-06 19:04 ` Trond Myklebust [this message]
[not found] ` <E1II8Nw-0005XH-00@dorka.pomaz.szeredi.hu>
2007-08-06 21:23 ` Trond Myklebust
2007-08-07 20:51 ` [Cluster-devel] " Christoph Hellwig
2007-08-07 22:20 ` Jeff Layton
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