Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 30 Jan 2007 14:55:56 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] pipefs unique inode numbers |
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On Tue, 30 Jan 2007, Bodo Eggert wrote: > > change pipefs to use a unique inode number equal to the memory > address unless it would be truncated.
I *really* wouldn't want to expose kernel addresses to user space, it just ends up being a piece of data that they shouldn't have. If we have some security issue, this is just too much kernel information that a bad user could get at.
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