Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 6 Jun 2013 11:40:04 +0900 | Subject | Re: [RFC] corner cases of open() on procfs symlinks | From | Linus Torvalds <> |
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On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 11:29 AM, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> wrote: > > Probably... procfs symlinks neutering O_DIRECTORY might, in theory, be usable > to cook something nasty, but I don't see any obvious ways to exploit that. > FWIW, resulting kernel seems to survive the minimal beating, but obviously > more is needed.
Let's plan on merging that patch in the 3.11 merge window, and perhaps mark it for stable?
Linus
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