Re: Re: [PATCH v7 02/12] file: Export receive_fd() to modules

Yongji Xie
2021-05-20T06:32:58Z

On Thu, May 20, 2021 at 2:18 PM Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>
> On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 05:55:03PM +0800, Xie Yongji wrote:
> > Export receive_fd() so that some modules can use
> > it to pass file descriptor between processes without
> > missing any security stuffs.
>
> Which tree is that against? Because in mainline this won't even build, let
> alone work.
>

Oh, sorry for that. Now I'm based on vhost.git tree. But looks like I
miss Christoph's commit
42eb0d54c08 ("fs: split receive_fd_replace from __receive_fd"). Will
rebase on it in v8.

Thanks,
Yongji