linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] tracefs: Do not allocate and free proxy

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Message-ID: <CAHk-=wh_JH5-hC3yk8X3Ja8XMTuW68-ozuqZdMw7fcHpcpHuUw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 11 Oct 2019 12:24:23 -0700
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Matthew Garrett <matthewgarrett@...gle.com>,
        James Morris James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
        LSM List <linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux API <linux-api@...r.kernel.org>,
        Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tracefs: Do not allocate and free proxy_ops for lockdown

On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 11:36 AM Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 11 Oct 2019 11:20:30 -0700
> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> > Willing to do that instead?
>
> Honestly, what you described was my preferred solution ;-)
>
> I just didn't want to upset the lockdown crowd if a new tracefs file
> was opened without doing this.

Well, since they introduced a bug in your code that killed your
machine with the patch _they_ did, I don't think they get to complain
when you fix it the way you (and me) want to...

Fair is fair.

             Linus