From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750998AbXBLAXJ (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Feb 2007 19:23:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751005AbXBLAXJ (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Feb 2007 19:23:09 -0500 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:45013 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750998AbXBLAXI (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Feb 2007 19:23:08 -0500 Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 00:34:50 +0000 From: Alan To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Eric Dumazet , Zach Brown , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-aio@kvack.org, Suparna Bhattacharya , Benjamin LaHaise , Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: [PATCH 0 of 4] Generic AIO by scheduling stacks Message-ID: <20070210003450.6fcdfd67@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: References: <45CD0C07.5060601@cosmosbay.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.7.1 (GTK+ 2.10.4; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > I think we only do it for fget_light and some VM TLB simplification, so it > shouldn't be a big burden to check. And all the permission management stuff that relies on one thread not being able to manipulate the uid/gid of another to race security checks. Alan