Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 5 Sep 2021 16:44:32 +0000 | From | Al Viro <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v13 03/13] file: Export receive_fd() to modules |
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On Sun, Sep 05, 2021 at 11:57:22AM -0400, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > On Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 06:36:24PM +0800, Xie Yongji wrote: > > Export receive_fd() so that some modules can use > > it to pass file descriptor between processes without > > missing any security stuffs. > > > > Signed-off-by: Xie Yongji <xieyongji@bytedance.com> > > Acked-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> > > This needs some acks from fs devels. > Viro?
*shrug*
I still think that having random ioctls messing with descriptor table is a bad idea, and I'm not thrilled with the way it's currently factored, but we can change that later.
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