Re: IMA: kernel reading files opened with O_DIRECT

Jeff Moyer
2014-07-02T18:46:28Z

Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> writes:

> On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 11:55:41AM -0400, Jeff Moyer wrote:
>> It's acceptable.
>
> It's not because it will then also affect other reads going on at the
> same time.

OK, that part I was fuzzy on. I wasn't sure if they were preventing
other reads/writes to the same file somehow. I should have mentioned
that.

Cheers,
Jeff