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Message-Id: <1194085985.27652.409.camel@twins>
Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2007 11:33:05 +0100
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To: Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Cc: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@...kov.net>,
v9fs-developer@...ts.sourceforge.net,
linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/10] 9p: sysfs support for in-kenel servers
On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 20:48 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> Also, a sysfs file that causes an action to happen just by reading the
> file is not a safe thing to have. Lots of scripts have been known to
> just walk the whole sysfs tree and open and read everything they can for
> no real good reason. So you should seriously reconsider this kind of
> interaction.
Christoph, doesn't SLUB do exactly that?
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