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From: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>
To: green@linuxhacker.ru
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	devel@driverdev.osuosl.org,
	Andreas Dilger <andreas.dilger@intel.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] staging/lustre/llite: remove LL_IOC_REMOVE_ENTRY handler
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2015 12:38:05 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150610070805.GC7035@sudip-PC> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1433911283-24902-2-git-send-email-green@linuxhacker.ru>

On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 12:41:22AM -0400, green@linuxhacker.ru wrote:
> From: Oleg Drokin <green@linuxhacker.ru>
> 
> It uses getname in unsafe manner and since it's to deal with corrupted
> or inconsistent filesystem, we are probably better to deal with
> it from lfsck anyway.
I am not sure but will it not break the userspace? There may be some
application who is using this ioctl.
And I think you missed removing the #define LL_IOC_REMOVE_ENTRY from
lustre_user.h which will not be used anymore. 

regards
sudip

  reply	other threads:[~2015-06-10  7:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-06-10  4:41 [PATCH 0/2] Fixup lusre ll_getname green
2015-06-10  4:41 ` [PATCH 1/2] staging/lustre/llite: remove LL_IOC_REMOVE_ENTRY handler green
2015-06-10  7:08   ` Sudip Mukherjee [this message]
2015-06-10  7:19     ` Oleg Drokin
2015-06-10  4:41 ` [PATCH 2/2] staging/lustre/llite: fix ll_getname user buffer copy green
2015-06-10  7:52   ` Dan Carpenter
2015-06-10  7:59     ` Oleg Drokin

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