Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 24 Aug 2004 21:53:44 +0100 | | From | viro@parcelfa ... | | Subject | Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 |
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On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 04:38:25PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > o files as directories > > - O_DIRECTORY opens succeed on all files on reiser4. Besides breaking > > .htaccess handling in apache and glibc compilation this also renders > > this flag entirely useless and opens up the races it tries to > > prevent against cmpletely useless > > > Ouch. > > I would definitely classify this as a security hole, since userland > definitely uses O_DIRECTORY to avoid races.
Feh. That's far from the worst parts of the mess introduced by "hybrid" crap - trivial sys_link(2) deadlocks triggerable by any user rate a bit higher on the suckitude scale, IMO. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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