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SubjectRe: [PATCH, RFC] tty: stop abusing file->f_u.fu_list
On Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 02:39:34PM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> The ttry code currently abuses the file anchor for the per-sb file list
> to track instances of a given tty. But there's no good reason for
> that, we can just install a proxy object in file->private that gets
> added to the list and points to the tty and keep the list away from
> VFS internals.
>
> Note that I've just if 0'd the selinux mess poking into it. While we
> could trivially port it to the new code by making the tty_private
> structure public this code is just too revolting to be kept around.
> It would never have been there anyway if a person with some amount of
> clue had ever reviewed the selinux code. And no, it's not just the
> tty portion, the rest of that function is just as bad.

This is disgusting, as much as selinux code you've mentioned ;-/

FWIW, selinux problem here is interesting - essentially, it violates its
own rules since the real object here is not an inode. It's tty. And
inode pretty much serves as a name - potentially one of many. So the
policy should've been associated with tty instead...


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