linux-kernel - Re: Stupid VFS name lookup interface..

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Date:	Tue, 21 May 2013 15:37:50 -0700
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Stupid VFS name lookup interface..

On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 3:34 PM, Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>
> In principle, yes, but...  I wonder if those two cases are actually
> safe (especially ncpfs) right now.

Now I can agree that that may well be an issue.

I don't think my patch makes anything worse (because if the inode
isn't stable, we could have hit the before/after cases before, and the
new NULL case is trivial to handle).

But I'm certainly not going to claim that ncpfs doesn't already have a
race as-is. Just claiming that I wouldn't have made it worse ;)

> Let me dig around in that code a bit, OK?

Sure, no problem. This would be 3.11 material anyway, I'd expect.

                 Linus
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