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Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 19:49:09 -0800
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
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Subject: Re: Driver-Core: devtmpfs - reset inode permissions before
	unlinking
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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