Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 23 Feb 2011 21:08:08 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 9/9] userns: check user namespace for task->file uid equivalence checks |
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On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 03:24:16 +0000 "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com> wrote:
> Quoting Andrew Morton (akpm@linux-foundation.org): > > On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 15:04:07 +0000 > > "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com> wrote: > > > > There's a fairly well adhered to convention that global symbols (and > > often static symbols) have a prefix which identifies the subsystem to > > which they belong. This patchset rather scorns that convention. > > > > Most of these identifiers are pretty obviously from the capability > > subsystem, but still... > > Would 'inode_owner_or_capable' be better and and make sense? >
I suppose so. We've totally screwed that pooch in the VFS (grep EXPORT fs/inode.c). But it's never to late to start.
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