linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.24-rc3-git4 NFS crossmnt regression

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Message-ID: <m1fxydpzpk.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>
Date:	Fri, 07 Dec 2007 21:39:19 -0700
From:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
Cc:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@....uio.no>,
	gnome42@...il.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	bfields@...ldses.org, "Denis V. Lunev" <den@...nvz.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.24-rc3-git4 NFS crossmnt regression

Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com> writes:

> I very much agree. ->shadow_proc is so ugly, so it's not funny anymore.
> Adding such hook for proc part of networking _and_ for modules is just asking
> for trouble as was demonstrated.

Alexey however we do this we fundamentally have to proc_lookup, if
we don't want weird artifacts showing up in user space.

To me the implementation details don't much matter, as long as we
somehow get proc_lookup to do the right thing.

Eric
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