linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Revert "debugfs: inode: debugfs_create

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Date:   Tue, 12 Jun 2018 04:37:09 +0200
From:   Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>
To:     Laura Abbott <labbott@...hat.com>,
        Thomas Richter <tmricht@...ux.ibm.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revert "debugfs: inode: debugfs_create_dir uses mode
 permission from parent"

On Mon, 2018-06-11 at 11:12 -0700, Laura Abbott wrote:
> On 06/11/2018 02:28 AM, Thomas Richter wrote:
> > This reverts commit 95cde3c59966f6371b6bcd9e4e2da2ba64ee9775.
> > It breaks the ioctl(KVM_CREATE_VM) interface.
> > 
> 
> Can you elaborate a little more on how this breaks? Fedora has
> gotten at least one report of a failure in this ioctl and
> I'd like know if it's the same issue.

What I reported is here https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/6/8/79

	-Mike