linux-kernel - Re: Fix broken ownership of /proc/sys/ files

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Date:	Mon, 17 Nov 2008 04:06:45 +0000
From:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Peter Palfrader <peter@...frader.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Fix broken ownership of /proc/sys/ files

On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 03:23:47PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> 
> On Sun, 16 Nov 2008, Al Viro wrote:
> >
> > D'oh...
> 
> So I applied this, but I wonder if it might not be nice to make 
> new_inode() (or rather - 'alloc_inode()') initialize some more of the 
> really core members.
> 
> We already initialize a _lot_ of fields, including fields that most 
> filesystem would likely end up re-initializing when reading an inode (like 
> i_size and i_nlink). Maybe it would be more sensible to initialize 
> i_gid/uid there too, when we are guaranteed to have that cacheline dirty 
> anyway (because we're initializing everything around those fields).

*nod*

It certainly makes sense to do it in a uniform way - there's enough
users of new_inode() that want exactly that.  I'll do that as soon
as I get from under a huge pile of pending mail ;-/

ObPendingStuff: would you mind a series of section annotations?  That's
a bunch of trivial one-liners and it kills the section noise - the remaining
ones are few and tricky.  It had sat around in my tree for several weeks
and I can certainly carry it until the next cycle, but OTOH this stuff
*is* trivial and the noise is annoying as hell.
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