Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 17 May 2005 06:54:52 +0100 | From | Al Viro <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Fix root hole in pktcdvd |
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On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 06:00:25AM +0100, Al Viro wrote: > Same comment as for previous patch. I'll take a look at that sucker, > it might happen to be OK, seeing that most of the bdev ->ioctl() instances > ignore file argument and we might get away with passing odd stuff to > anything that could occur here.
Oh, lovely - pkt_open() opens underlying device, unless we already have our device opened. Guess what happens if you open() with O_RDONLY and then - with O_RDWR? - 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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