Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] anon_inode: set S_IFREG on the anon_inode | From | Eric Paris <> | Date | Fri, 14 May 2010 16:26:23 -0400 |
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On Fri, 2010-05-14 at 21:23 +0100, Al Viro wrote: > On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 04:05:59PM -0400, Eric Paris wrote: > > anon_inode_mkinode() sets inode->i_mode = S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR; This means > > that (inode->i_mode & S_IFMT) == 0. This trips up some SELinux code that > > needs to determine if a given inode is a regular file, a directory, etc. > > The easiest solution is to just make sure that the anon_inode also sets > > S_IFREG. > > How urgent that one is? It is obvious enough, so I could include it into > the pull request for -final, but...
printk spam. No hurry. Probably should have put that in the commit message.
-Eric
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