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From: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
To: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	torvalds@linux-foundation.org,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	stable@kernel.org, Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>,
	Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] devices cgroup: allow mkfifo
Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2008 15:09:06 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49435F92.5070102@cn.fujitsu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081212143458.GC9571@us.ibm.com>

>> hm.  I'd looked at your description and decided this was 2.6.29 material.
>>
>> But you think it's for 2.6.28 and even for 2.6.27.  How come?
>>
>> (iow, your changelog sucked :)
> 
> Sorry, I should have put the exchange between Li and I in there.
> (Ouch, and I didn't cc: Li this time!  Sorry, Li.)
> 
> Li thought it was 2.6.27/2.6.27 material.  I thought not, but wanted
> to see what the -stable folks thought.
> 

I was not sure about this.

> This is not a security hole, and since noone has complained before
> it doesn't appear to be too inconvenient.  Until the fix goes
> up, container users can always create the fifos and socks on the
> root image while creating the container, before entering the
> device whitelist.
> 

Now the explanation makes it clear for me, thx. :)



  reply	other threads:[~2008-12-13  7:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-11 15:50 [PATCH 1/1] devices cgroup: allow mkfifo Serge E. Hallyn
2008-12-12  3:12 ` Andrew Morton
2008-12-12 14:34   ` Serge E. Hallyn
2008-12-13  7:09     ` Li Zefan [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-12-10 15:57 Serge E. Hallyn
2008-12-11  0:56 ` Li Zefan
2008-12-11 14:59   ` Serge E. Hallyn

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