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SubjectRe: Fix broken ownership of /proc/sys/ files


On Sun, 16 Nov 2008, Al Viro wrote:
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> D'oh...

So I applied this, but I wonder if it might not be nice to make
new_inode() (or rather - 'alloc_inode()') initialize some more of the
really core members.

We already initialize a _lot_ of fields, including fields that most
filesystem would likely end up re-initializing when reading an inode (like
i_size and i_nlink). Maybe it would be more sensible to initialize
i_gid/uid there too, when we are guaranteed to have that cacheline dirty
anyway (because we're initializing everything around those fields).

But I guess it's not a huge deal.

Linus


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