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Date:   Wed, 31 Mar 2021 19:32:33 +0800
From:   Yongji Xie <xieyongji@...edance.com>
To:     Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@...ntu.com>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>,
        Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>,
        Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@...hat.com>,
        Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@...hat.com>,
        Parav Pandit <parav@...dia.com>,
        Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@...onical.com>,
        Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk,
        Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, bcrl@...ck.org,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Mika Penttilä <mika.penttila@...tfour.com>,
        Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>,
        virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        kvm@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Re: [PATCH v6 01/10] file: Export receive_fd() to modules

On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 5:15 PM Christian Brauner
<christian.brauner@...ntu.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 04:05:10PM +0800, Xie Yongji wrote:
> > Export receive_fd() so that some modules can use
> > it to pass file descriptor between processes without
> > missing any security stuffs.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Xie Yongji <xieyongji@...edance.com>
> > ---
>
> Yeah, as I said in the other mail I'd be comfortable with exposing just
> this variant of the helper.

Thanks, I got it now.

> Maybe this should be a separate patch bundled together with Christoph's
> patch to split parts of receive_fd() into a separate helper.

Do we need to add the seccomp notifier into the separate helper? In
our case, the file passed to the separate helper is from another
process.

Thanks,
Yongji