From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Driver-Core: devtmpfs - reset inode permissions before unlinking
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 19:49:09 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100114034909.GB27634@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1263388596.26006.1.camel@yio.site>
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 02:16:36PM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:
> From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
> Subject: Driver-Core: devtmpfs - reset inode permissions before unlinking
>
> Before unlinking the inode, reset the current permissions of possible
> references like hardlinks, so granted permissions can not be retained
> across the device lifetime by creating hardlinks, in the unusual case
> that there is a user-writable directory on the same filesystem.
Is this something that we need to worry about for existing users
(2.6.32 and .33), or can it wait until 2.6.34?
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-14 4:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-13 13:16 Driver-Core: devtmpfs - reset inode permissions before unlinking Kay Sievers
2010-01-14 3:49 ` Greg KH [this message]
2010-01-14 5:11 ` Kay Sievers
2010-01-14 20:53 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2010-01-14 20:59 ` Kay Sievers
2010-01-14 21:07 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2010-01-14 21:45 ` Kay Sievers
2010-01-16 2:26 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2010-01-16 3:31 ` Greg KH
2010-01-17 3:33 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2010-01-14 21:00 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
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