linux-kernel - Re: [GIT] Security subsystem changes for 3.14

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Date:	Tue, 21 Jan 2014 19:03:25 +0100
From:	Peter Hüwe <PeterHuewe@....de>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
	LSM List <linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT] Security subsystem changes for 3.14

Am Dienstag, 21. Januar 2014, 18:15:01 schrieb Linus Torvalds:
> is that this is a callback for acpi_walk_namespace(), and returning a
> failure status means that the walk will be interrupted.
> 
> So you actually want to return AE_OK if the acpi_get_name() call
> fails, because that just skips the failing node. Returning failure
> will skip *all* the nodes.


Thanks Linus for pointing this out - and sorry, my bad.

Peter
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