linux-kernel - [PATCH 0/1] fs: forbid to open anon-inode files via /proc

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Date:	Sat, 9 Nov 2013 21:04:24 +0100
From:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To:	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-next@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 0/1] fs: forbid to open anon-inode files via /proc

On 11/08, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>
> On 11/08, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> >
> > On 11/08, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi Andrew,
> > >
> > > Today's linux-next merge of the akpm-current tree got a conflict in
> > > fs/anon_inodes.c between commit 24b0303e9532 ("take anon inode allocation
> > > to libfs.c") from the vfs tree and commit 02f3ac4386d9 ("anon_inodefs:
> > > forbid open via /proc") from the akpm-current tree.
> > >
> > > I just dropped the akpm-current changes for today - they should probably
> > > be applied to fs/libfs.c.
> >
> > Well, this probably means that
> >
> > 	anon_inodefs-forbid-open-via-proc.patch
> >
> > should be dropped. I'll rediff this patch against vfs.git
>
> 24b0303e9532 also removes anon_inode_fops. It seems that it was not really
> needed anyway, inode_init_always() does inode->i_fop = empty_fops...
>
> So probably we can simply change empty_fops but I need to recheck.

Well. It looks "really obvious" that any user of inode_init_always()
either needs to change ->i_fop or this file should not be opened via
/proc...

So, Al, feel free to ignore, this is minor. Still I think this patch
makes sense. Based on vfs.git#for-next.

Oleg.

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