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From: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
To: security@kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	tomoyo-users-en@lists.sourceforge.jp,
	Kentaro Takeda <takedakn@nttdata.co.jp>
Subject: time_attrs argument for security_path_truncate
Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2010 01:50:55 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100601155055.GZ9453@laptop> (raw)

It appears like the time_attrs parameter of security_path_truncate is
unused by any security module, so I wonder if we can remove it?

We cannot really get it right for truncate(2) calls anyway without
holding i_mutex over the call (because ATTR_MTIME|ATTR_CTIME is
effectively set iff size changes). So the meaning of this parameter
today is misleading anyway.

Thanks,
Nick


             reply	other threads:[~2010-06-01 15:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-01 15:50 Nick Piggin [this message]
2010-06-01 17:04 ` [Security] time_attrs argument for security_path_truncate Linus Torvalds
2010-06-01 17:24   ` Nick Piggin
2010-06-01 17:52     ` Linus Torvalds
2010-06-02  3:28       ` [PATCH] LSM: Remove unused time_attrs argument Tetsuo Handa
2010-06-02  3:50         ` Nick Piggin
2010-06-02  3:59           ` Nick Piggin
2010-06-02  4:24           ` Tetsuo Handa
2010-06-02  4:41             ` Nick Piggin
2010-06-02  5:22             ` James Morris

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