Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 19 Jun 2019 16:11:36 -0400 | From | Sasha Levin <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.1 35/70] loop: Don't change loop device under exclusive opener |
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On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 11:00:13AM +0200, Jan Kara wrote: >On Sat 08-06-19 07:39:14, Sasha Levin wrote: >> From: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> >> >> [ Upstream commit 33ec3e53e7b1869d7851e59e126bdb0fe0bd1982 ] > >Please don't push this to stable kernels because...
I've dropped this, but...
>> [Deliberately chosen not to CC stable as a user with priviledges to >> trigger this race has other means of taking the system down and this >> has a potential of breaking some weird userspace setup] > >... of this. Thanks!
Can't this be triggered by an "innocent" user, rather as part of an attack? Why can't this race happen during regular usage?
-- Thanks, Sasha
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