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From: Martin Kepplinger <martink@posteo.de>
To: miklos@szeredi.hu
Cc: fuse-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, thierry.reding@gmail.com,
	gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, giedriuswork@gmail.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fuse: don't check for file->private_data on open().
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 17:41:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54638DD6.60009@posteo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1415809894-24084-1-git-send-email-martink@posteo.de>

Am 2014-11-12 um 17:31 schrieb Martin Kepplinger:
> The miscdevice core now sets file->private_data to the struct miscdevice
> so don't fail when this is not NULL.
> 
> Reported-by: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Martin Kepplinger <martink@posteo.de>
> ---
> This is a question: what does this check provide and does overwriting
> file->private_data make any difference?
> 
> Is open() by the user not allowed here, if file->private_data is set?
> 
> thanks!!
> 

if ok, please add

Reported-by: Giedrius Statkevicius <giedriuswork@gmail.com>

thanks

  reply	other threads:[~2014-11-12 16:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-11 20:27 [Bisected] Regression: cpu stuck in gvfsd-fuse, can't shutdown Giedrius Statkevicius
2014-11-11 21:05 ` Greg KH
2014-11-11 21:44   ` Giedrius Statkevicius
2014-11-12 11:26     ` Thierry Reding
2014-11-12 16:31       ` [PATCH] fuse: don't check for file->private_data on open() Martin Kepplinger
2014-11-12 16:41         ` Martin Kepplinger [this message]
2014-11-12 17:23         ` Giedrius Statkevicius
2014-11-12 18:56           ` [PATCH] fuse: Don't check for file->private_data on open(). It is set by the core Martin Kepplinger
2014-11-13  9:40         ` [PATCH] fuse: don't check for file->private_data on open() Miklos Szeredi
2014-11-13 10:05           ` Martin Kepplinger
2014-11-13 10:53             ` Miklos Szeredi
2014-11-13 11:13               ` Martin Kepplinger
2014-11-13 15:34                 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman

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