Re: [PATCH 2.6.5-mm4] sys_access race fix

Chris Wright
2004-04-13T18:50:58Z

* Fabian Frederick (Fabian.Frederick@skynet.be) wrote:
> Andrew,
>
> I'm trying to remove the race in sys_access code.
> AFAICS, fsuid is checked in "permission" level so I pushed real fsuid
> capture forward.At that state, I can task_lock (which was impossible
> before user_walk).Could you tell me if I can improve this one ?

This changes the semantics of the directory checks implicit
during the pathname resolution.

thanks,
-chris
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