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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] NFSD: Don't hold unrefcounted creds over call to nfsd_setuser()
Date: Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:31:33 +0100
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J. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org> wrote:

> Got it, thanks.  How easy is it to hit this case?  (Just wondering
> whether to submit for stable.)

Actually, one of the problems with it is that the file is opened using the old
creds, cached across the call to nfsd_setuser().

David