linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] staging/lustre/llite: remove LL_IOC_REMOVE

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Date:	Wed, 10 Jun 2015 12:38:05 +0530
From:	Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>
To:	green@...uxhacker.ru
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
	Andreas Dilger <andreas.dilger@...el.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] staging/lustre/llite: remove LL_IOC_REMOVE_ENTRY
 handler

On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 12:41:22AM -0400, green@...uxhacker.ru wrote:
> From: Oleg Drokin <green@...uxhacker.ru>
> 
> It uses getname in unsafe manner and since it's to deal with corrupted
> or inconsistent filesystem, we are probably better to deal with
> it from lfsck anyway.
I am not sure but will it not break the userspace? There may be some
application who is using this ioctl.
And I think you missed removing the #define LL_IOC_REMOVE_ENTRY from
lustre_user.h which will not be used anymore. 

regards
sudip
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