linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHv2 2/5] VFS: DazukoFS, stackable-fs, file access control

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Message-ID: <863aei3z4b.fsf@lonestar.fn.ogness.net>
Date:	Fri, 13 Feb 2009 20:39:32 +0100
From:	John Ogness <john@...ess.net>
To:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
Cc:	John Ogness <dazukocode@...ess.net>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, malware-list@...ts.printk.net,
	eparis@...hat.com, hch@...radead.org, alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 2/5] VFS: DazukoFS, stackable-fs, file access control

On 2009-02-12, ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman) wrote:
> Please use struct pid properly.
>
> There is no guarantee that whoever opens /dev/dazukofs.0 will
> be in the global pid namespace.
>
> So you need to properly store a struct pid reference in your data
> structures, and call pid_vnr just before you pass the value to
> userspace.

Thanks. I was not aware of pid.h. I will make this change.

John Ogness
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