Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 13 Jan 2010 19:49:09 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: Driver-Core: devtmpfs - reset inode permissions before unlinking |
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On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 02:16:36PM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote: > From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> > Subject: Driver-Core: devtmpfs - reset inode permissions before unlinking > > Before unlinking the inode, reset the current permissions of possible > references like hardlinks, so granted permissions can not be retained > across the device lifetime by creating hardlinks, in the unusual case > that there is a user-writable directory on the same filesystem.
Is this something that we need to worry about for existing users (2.6.32 and .33), or can it wait until 2.6.34?
thanks,
greg k-h
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