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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] backout the xattr override access checks flag
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2003 19:36:23 +0000
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To: Luka Renko <luka.renko@hermes.si>
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In-Reply-To: <A1C30C1C0FB8D5118D810004754C0375854483@hsl-lj3x.hermes.si>; from luka.renko@hermes.si on Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 08:28:23PM +0100
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On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 08:28:23PM +0100, Luka Renko wrote:
> I have concerns with kernel module temporarly changing capabilities of a
> user process, however I am not sure if this is really the problem. I was
> thinking in terms of SMP/preempt (EA calls can/will go to sleep) and
> considering that this might be a security problem, however since we are
> changing it per process it should probably be OK.

Right.  And we're already doing similar things, see sys_access().