From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Howells Subject: Re: [PATCH] CRED: Fix regression in cap_capable() as shown up by sys_faccessat() [ver #2] Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2009 23:03:26 +0000 Message-ID: <14883.1231023806@redhat.com> References: <20090103184921.GB20166@fieldses.org> <20090102051905.GC1073@fieldses.org> <20090101235332.GA31840@fieldses.org> <24959.1230694093@redhat.com> <20081230134248.GA30124@lst.de> <21275.1230736542@redhat.com> <29449.1230859152@redhat.com> <32481.1230897578@redhat.com> <20090102164505.GA10465@fieldses.org> Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, Christoph Hellwig , jmorris@namei.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org To: "J. Bruce Fields" Return-path: Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:52427 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751904AbZACXDj (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Jan 2009 18:03:39 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20090103184921.GB20166@fieldses.org> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: J. Bruce Fields wrote: > More precisely: > - The last working commit is b6dff3ec... "CRED: Separate task > security context from task_struct". > - The first commit exhibiting the permissions problem is > a6f76f2... "CRED: Make execve() take advantage of > copy-on-write credentials". > - The 9 commits in between (from f1752eec to d84f4f9) result in > a soft lookup on boot. Okay, I'll have a look at that, but did you manage to find out if the patch I posted fixed the problem you originally mentioned? David