Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 8 Oct 2018 17:55:45 +0100 | From | Al Viro <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH RFC] proc: Don't retain negative dentries |
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On Mon, Oct 08, 2018 at 06:50:10PM +0200, Ahmad Fatoum wrote: > The referenced commit 1da4d377f94 ("proc: revalidate misc dentries") > caused following userspace code to access a stale /proc/net/dev > after the network namespace was changed:
> Despite switching the network namespace, the read access from the > newly opened file gave back what the very first read in the default > network namespace returned.
What the hell does that have to do with negative dentries anywhere???
NAK. Rationale makes no sense _and_ the patch has nothing to do with claimed rationale.
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