Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:07:43 -0200 | From | Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <> | Subject | Re: Driver-Core: devtmpfs - reset inode permissions before unlinking |
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On Thu, 14 Jan 2010, Kay Sievers wrote: > On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 21:53, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh > <hmh@hmh.eng.br> wrote: > > On Wed, 13 Jan 2010, Kay Sievers wrote: > >> across the device lifetime by creating hardlinks, in the unusual case > >> that there is a user-writable directory on the same filesystem. > > > > Does a tmpfs mounted in /dev/shm count as "user-writable directory on the > > same filesystem" ? > > Not if it's a separate tmpfs mount, which is recommended. Only if it's > just a plain directory on the /dev filesystem.
Yeah, I noticed the abusurdity of my question when I re-read it, thanks for being kind in the reply.
That said, this does fix a possible security problem when a misconfigured system is used, and the fix looks rather simple... Can it go to -stable eventually, even if it is months in the future, after it gets some testing in .34 ? Minor problems are still problems...
-- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh
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