netdev - Re: linux-next: Tree for September 3

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Message-ID: <m163pb4pru.fsf@frodo.ebiederm.org>
Date:	Thu, 04 Sep 2008 13:31:01 -0700
From:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
	linux-next@...r.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>,
	Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@...assic.park.msu.ru>,
	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
	john stultz <johnstul@...ibm.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: linux-next: Tree for September 3

Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> writes:

> On Thu, 4 Sep 2008 11:05:21 -0700 (PDT) Linus Torvalds
> <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
>> > This is a pull of your tree from yesterday, ending at commit 
>> > fbb16e243887332dd5754e48ffe5b963378f3cd2
>> 
>> There's been various suggested patches by Al/Eric (added to cc) for 
>> /proc/net handling, but none of them have actually even been merged yet. 
>> So I don't think this code has changed in a while. 
>> 
>> Al, Eric, ideas?

There aren't any issues I know of with normal configurations
and the current proc code.

> I don't think I saw it on any other test machines.
>
> This machine runs SELinux.  Distro is FC5.

>> > config: http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/config-sony.txt
>> > dmesg: http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/dmesg-sony-without.txt
>> 
>> That whole thing should just be a simple symlink:
>> 
>> 	fs/proc/proc_net.c:     proc_symlink("net", NULL, "self/net");
>
> /proc/self/net looks fine.
>
>> are you sure it's a plain tree of mine, without any of the patches 
>> floating around between Eric/Al?
>
> yup, it's yesterday's mainline.

Does the problem happen if you disable selinux?

This feels like a case of selinux being over zealous.

Eric
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