Re: [PATCH for-4.5] tools/pygrub: Fix TOCTOU race introduced by c/s 63dcc68

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>]

On Wed, 2014-10-29 at 14:09 +0000, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> In addition, use os.makedirs() which will also create intermediate directories
> if they don't exist.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
> CC: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
> CC: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>
> CC: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
> CC: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
> CC: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>

Acked and applied as a bug fix.

In the future when you include a "for-4.5" tag on a patch please
*always* state your reasoning (usually after the "---"). Don't make the
maintainer / release manager / committer guess why you think it should
be in 4.5. If you consider it "obviously a bug fix" then say so and then
say something about the impact of the bug and the risk associated with
the fix.

I'm a bit grumpy about the number of patches which don't do this, such
patches are mostly going to the back of my queue, alongside the 4.6
patches, since without any rationale that is effectively what I consider
them to be despite the use of the for-4.5 tag.

Ian.