linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] nsfd fixes

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Message-ID: <BANLkTikq0XRkvkX6O5C2yKf6rRvMWciZpA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 21 Jun 2011 18:25:02 -0700
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Linux Containers <containers@...ts.osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] nsfd fixes

On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 3:07 PM, Eric W. Biederman
<ebiederm@...ssion.com> wrote:
>
> When looking over my namespace file descriptor code I realized I goofed
> in the implementation.  I missed the addition of d_set_d_op, and
> painfully I badly placed the ptrace_may_read permission checks with the
> result that the dcache could cache things and bypass the checks.
>
> The fixes are available at.
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/linux-2.6-nsfd.git

Why do you talk about nfsd fixes in both the repository name and in
the subject line? This seems to have nothing to do with nfsd except in
the crazy sense of somebody trying to export /proc with nfs.

Not pulled due to extreme confusion and craziness.

                   Linus
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