Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

Jeff Garzik
2004-08-24T20:38:36Z

Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> o files as directories
> - O_DIRECTORY opens succeed on all files on reiser4. Besides breaking
> .htaccess handling in apache and glibc compilation this also renders
> this flag entirely useless and opens up the races it tries to
> prevent against cmpletely useless

Ouch.

I would definitely classify this as a security hole, since userland
definitely uses O_DIRECTORY to avoid races.

Jeff