linux-kernel - Re: [git pull] vfs.git, part 1

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite for Android: free password hash cracker in your pocket

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Thu, 1 Aug 2013 02:00:46 -0700
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [git pull] vfs.git, part 1

On Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 08:59:49PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> The major change in that pile is ->readdir() replacement with ->iterate(),
> dealing with ->f_pos races in ->readdir() instances for good.  There's
> a lot more, but I'd prefer to split the pull request into several stages
> and this is the first obvious cutoff point.  Please, pull from the
> usual place - 
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs.git for-linus

Again a little later, but iterate seems like a bad choice for a
directory specific operation in struct file operations, it really
should have "dir" somewhere in the method name.

--
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/