Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 13 Apr 2004 11:50:52 -0700 | From | Chris Wright <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2.6.5-mm4] sys_access race fix |
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* Fabian Frederick (Fabian.Frederick@skynet.be) wrote: > Andrew, > > I'm trying to remove the race in sys_access code. > AFAICS, fsuid is checked in "permission" level so I pushed real fsuid > capture forward.At that state, I can task_lock (which was impossible > before user_walk).Could you tell me if I can improve this one ?
This changes the semantics of the directory checks implicit during the pathname resolution.
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