linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] anon_inode: set S_IFREG on the anon

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Date:	Fri, 14 May 2010 21:23:30 +0100
From:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
To:	Eric Paris <eparis@...hat.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	npiggin@...e.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] anon_inode: set S_IFREG on the anon_inode

On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 04:05:59PM -0400, Eric Paris wrote:
> anon_inode_mkinode() sets inode->i_mode = S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR;  This means
> that (inode->i_mode & S_IFMT) == 0.  This trips up some SELinux code that
> needs to determine if a given inode is a regular file, a directory, etc.
> The easiest solution is to just make sure that the anon_inode also sets
> S_IFREG.

How urgent that one is?  It is obvious enough, so I could include it into
the pull request for -final, but...
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