Messages in this thread | | | From | Kay Sievers <> | Date | Thu, 14 Jan 2010 06:11:16 +0100 | Subject | Re: Driver-Core: devtmpfs - reset inode permissions before unlinking |
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On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 04:49, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 02:16:36PM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote: >> From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> >> Subject: Driver-Core: devtmpfs - reset inode permissions before unlinking >> >> Before unlinking the inode, reset the current permissions of possible >> references like hardlinks, so granted permissions can not be retained >> across the device lifetime by creating hardlinks, in the unusual case >> that there is a user-writable directory on the same filesystem. > > Is this something that we need to worry about for existing users > (2.6.32 and .33), or can it wait until 2.6.34?
Should be fine for .34 only.
Thanks, Kay
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