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From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	jmorris@namei.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] CRED: Fix regression in cap_capable() as shown up by sys_faccessat() [ver #2]
Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2009 21:03:34 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090104020334.GE24075@fieldses.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <14883.1231023806@redhat.com>

On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 11:03:26PM +0000, David Howells wrote:
> J. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org> wrote:
> 
> > More precisely:
> > 	- The last working commit is b6dff3ec... "CRED: Separate task
> > 	  security context from task_struct".
> > 	- The first commit exhibiting the permissions problem is
> > 	  a6f76f2... "CRED: Make execve() take advantage of
> > 	  copy-on-write credentials".
> > 	- The 9 commits in between (from f1752eec to d84f4f9) result in
> > 	  a soft lookup on boot.
> 
> Okay, I'll have a look at that, but did you manage to find out if the patch I
> posted fixed the problem you originally mentioned?

I tested that patch, yes, but it didn't fix the problem.

--b.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-04  2:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-30 13:42 access(2) regressions in current mainline Christoph Hellwig
2008-12-30 17:06 ` David Howells
2008-12-30 17:09   ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-12-30 17:20     ` David Howells
2008-12-30 17:29       ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-12-30 17:54         ` David Howells
2008-12-31  2:05           ` Dave Chinner
2008-12-31  3:28 ` [PATCH] CRED: Fix regression in cap_capable() as shown up by sys_faccessat() David Howells
2008-12-31 15:15   ` [PATCH] CRED: Fix regression in cap_capable() as shown up by sys_faccessat() [ver #2] David Howells
2008-12-31 23:24     ` James Morris
2009-01-01 23:53     ` J. Bruce Fields
2009-01-02  1:19       ` David Howells
2009-01-02  5:19         ` J. Bruce Fields
2009-01-02 11:59           ` David Howells
2009-01-02 16:45             ` J. Bruce Fields
2009-01-03 18:49               ` J. Bruce Fields
2009-01-03 23:03                 ` David Howells
2009-01-04  2:03                   ` J. Bruce Fields [this message]
2009-01-05 13:11                 ` David Howells
2009-01-05 15:57               ` David Howells
2009-01-05 16:48               ` David Howells
2009-01-05 17:19                 ` [PATCH] CRED: Fix NFSD regression David Howells
2009-01-05 22:22                   ` James Morris
2009-01-06 19:41                   ` J. Bruce Fields
2009-01-06 19:56                     ` David Howells
2009-01-06 20:08                       ` J. Bruce Fields
2009-01-02 16:48     ` [PATCH] CRED: Fix regression in cap_capable() as shown up by sys_faccessat() [ver #2] J. Bruce Fields
2009-01-02 19:18       ` David Howells
2009-01-05  2:07     ` James Morris
2009-01-05  3:18       ` Serge E. Hallyn
2009-01-05  3:37         ` Serge E. Hallyn
2009-01-05 12:43         ` David Howells
2009-01-05 19:07           ` Serge E. Hallyn
2009-01-05 21:12             ` David Howells
2009-01-06 16:47               ` Serge E. Hallyn
2009-01-06 20:39                 ` David Howells
2009-01-06 20:56                   ` Serge E. Hallyn
2009-01-06 22:27       ` [PATCH] CRED: Fix regression in cap_capable() as shown up by sys_faccessat() [ver #3] David Howells
2009-01-06 22:53         ` James Morris
2009-01-06 23:57           ` J. Bruce Fields
2009-01-07  0:09             ` James Morris

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