On 2019-04-25, Aleksa Sarai wrote: > On 2019-04-23, Kees Cook wrote: > > This series provides solutions to so many different race and confusion > > issues, I'd really like to see it land. What's the next step here? Is > > this planned to go directly to Linus for v5.2, or is it going to live > > in -mm for a while? I'd really like to see this moving forward. > > Given some of the security requirements of this interface, I think > getting it to live in -mm wouldn't be a bad idea so folks can shake the > bugs out before it's depended on by container runtimes. Scratch my mention of -mm, it should be in Al's tree since it touches quite a few of the namei seqlocks. My point was that it should live in someone's tree for a little bit before it goes into a release. I will put together a PoC of a resolveat(2) variation of this series and re-send it out with both versions. -- Aleksa Sarai Senior Software Engineer (Containers) SUSE Linux GmbH