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Date:   Thu, 9 Apr 2020 14:40:31 +0200
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>
Cc:     Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@...el.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@...cle.com>,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
        Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@...hat.com>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-xfs@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V6 6/8] fs/xfs: Combine xfs_diflags_to_linux() and
 xfs_diflags_to_iflags()

On Thu, Apr 09, 2020 at 10:49:21AM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > Christoph did say:
> > 
> > 	"A reasonably smart application can try to evict itself."
> > 
> > 	-- https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200403072731.GA24176@lst.de/
> 
> I'd love to know how an unprivileged application can force the
> eviction of an inode from cache.

Where did the "unprivileged" suddenly come from?