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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] breakage in sysfs_readdir() and s_instances abuse in sysfs
Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2011 06:55:12 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTikChZuG4pOZ_ipDYaEv8VQ8omh-YQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110604212259.GY11521@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>

On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 6:22 AM, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>
> Are you OK with the sketch above?  I can probably cook a patch along those
> lines by tomorrow...

I'm ok with the sketch, but might think otherwise when actually seeing
the patch. And I wish some namespace person would look at this issue.
And the networking people would seem to need to be aware of it too,
but you've only cc'd fsdevel, so they are entirely unaware of the
whole thread..

             Linus
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  reply	other threads:[~2011-06-04 21:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-04  0:15 [RFC] breakage in sysfs_readdir() and s_instances abuse in sysfs Al Viro
2011-06-04 21:22 ` Al Viro
2011-06-04 21:55   ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2011-06-04 22:23     ` Al Viro
2011-06-06 19:03 ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-06-07 21:58   ` Al Viro
2011-06-07 22:59     ` Al Viro
2011-06-09  1:26       ` Al Viro
2011-06-12  7:15         ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-06-12 17:59           ` Linus Torvalds
2011-06-12 18:17             ` Al Viro
2011-06-12 18:35           ` Al Viro
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-06-04 22:25 Al Viro

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