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From: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] fail dentry revalidation after namespace change
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On 07/06/2012 01:37 PM, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com> writes:
> 
>> When we change the namespace tag of a sysfs entry, the associated dentry
>> is still kept around. readdir() will work correctly and not display the
>> old entries, but open() will still succeed, so will reads and writes.
> 
> Note reads and writes of file handles open before the move should
> continue to work.

Well, yes. But do you see it as a big problem?

This can probably be fixed as well, but I foresee a big hackishness in
the way =p