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

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Date:	Tue, 21 Jun 2011 21:29:33 -0400
From:	Mike Snitzer <snitzer@...il.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Linux Containers <containers@...ts.osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] nsfd fixes

On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 9:25 PM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> 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.

I had to read it a couple times too: nSFd not nFSd.

As in Name Space File Descriptors.
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