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Message-ID: <48B7183E.3010100@kernel.org>
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:27:26 -0700
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...nel.org>
To: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
CC: tj@...nel.org, fuse-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, greg@...ah.com,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/7] FUSE: implement ioctl support
Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Aug 2008, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> This is *hard* to get right, and we screw this up in the kernel with
>> painful regularity. The throught of having user-space processes, which
>> don't have access to the kernel locking primitives and functions like
>> copy_from_user() dealing with this stuff scares me crazy.
>
> What issues exactly are you thinking of?
Memory changing underneath you. It can be dealt with by very careful
sequencing only.
>> That is why I'm suggesting using an in-kernel linearizer.
>
> Lots of complexity, ugh... Even Tejun's current scheme is better IMO.
And then you get *no* privilege separation, for one thing, so why even
bother doing it in userspace?
-hpa
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