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Date:	Wed, 30 Aug 2006 13:52:32 -0400
From:	Eric Paris <eparis@...isplace.org>
To:	Steve French <smfrench@...tin.rr.com>
Cc:	jmorris@...hat.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	shaggy@...tin.ibm.com, shirishp@...ibm.com, akpm@...l.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] SELinux: work around filesystems which call
	d_instantiate before setting inode mode

On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 23:01 -0500, Steve French wrote:
> Eric,
> Does this patch do what you need?
> 
> It rearranges the cifs call to d_instantiate until after the inode is 
> filled in in fs/cifs/readdir.c
> which IIRC was the only place which did the reverse order from what you 
> expected (at
> least the only place in cifs).   I will try it tomorrow but I don't know 
> SE Linux
> scenarios to try that would prove whether it works.

This patch does seem to solve the issue with CIFS that we were
experiencing and I would love to see it submitted.

I would also like to have my original patch included as it will help to
flush out any other cases of this ordering in the future.

-Eric

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