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I allowed myself to get talked out of a final top to bottom code audit, and obviously that was a mistake. It will probably take about 6 weeks. Apologies for wasting your time before that was done. Hans viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk wrote: >On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 09:53:44PM +0100, viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk wrote: > > > >>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. >> >> > >While we are at it - consider these hybrids vetoed until > a) sys_link()/sys_link() deadlock is fixed > b) sys_link()/sys_rename() deadlock is fixed > c) correctness proof of the locking scheme (in >Documentation/filesystems/directory-locking) is updated to match the >presense of the file/directory hybrids. > >Rationale: (a) and (b) - immediately exploitable by any user, (c) - "convince >us that there's no more crap of that kind". IMO a reasonable request, seeing >that the first look at the patches in -mm4 had turned up two exploits in >that area, despite the *YEARS* of warnings about potential trouble and need >to be careful there (actually, I've given Hans too much credit and assumed >that link/link never happens since nobody would be dumb enough to provide >->link() method for non-directory inodes; turns out that somebody is dumb >enough and link/link is as exploitable as link/rename). >- >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/ > > > > - 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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