From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [RFC] breakage in sysfs_readdir() and s_instances abuse in sysfs Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2011 06:55:12 +0900 Message-ID: References: <20110604001518.GT11521@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <20110604212259.GY11521@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org To: Al Viro Return-path: Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:36185 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754363Ab1FDVze convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Jun 2011 17:55:34 -0400 Received: from mail-ww0-f44.google.com (mail-ww0-f44.google.com [74.125.82.44]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp1.linux-foundation.org (8.14.2/8.13.5/Debian-3ubuntu1.1) with ESMTP id p54LtWHD030169 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=FAIL) for ; Sat, 4 Jun 2011 14:55:33 -0700 Received: by wwa36 with SMTP id 36so2684969wwa.1 for ; Sat, 04 Jun 2011 14:55:32 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20110604212259.GY11521@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 6:22 AM, Al Viro wrote= : > > Are you OK with the sketch above? =A0I can probably cook a patch alon= g 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel= " in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html