Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [fuse-devel] [PATCH 01/25] VFS: move attr_kill logic from notify_change into helper function | From | Trond Myklebust <> | Date | Mon, 06 Aug 2007 15:04:23 -0400 |
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On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 20:28 +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> Your patch is changing the API in a very unsafe way, since there will > be no error or warning on an unconverted fs. And that could lead to > security holes. > > If we would rename the setattr method to setattr_new as well as > changing it's behavior, that would be fine. But I guess we do not > want to do that.
Which "unconverted fses"? If we're talking out of tree stuff, then too bad: it is _their_ responsibility to keep up with kernel changes.
Trond
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