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Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 14:38:35 -0800 (PST) From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> To: stefanha@...hat.com Cc: mst@...hat.com, jasowang@...hat.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] tun: avoid owner checks on IFF_ATTACH_QUEUE From: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@...hat.com> Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 12:55:03 +0100 > On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 01:31:08PM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: >> At the moment, we check owner when we enable queue in tun. >> This seems redundant and will break some valid uses >> where fd is passed around: I think TUNSETOWNER is there >> to prevent others from attaching to a persistent device not >> owned by them. Here the fd is already attached, >> enabling/disabling queue is more like read/write. >> >> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@...hat.com> >> >> --- >> >> Note: this is unrelated to Stefan's bugfix. > > This should go into 3.8-rc. > > Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@...hat.com> Applied. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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