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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...>
To: Bodo Eggert <7eggert@...>
Cc: <akpm@...>, Jeff Layton <jlayton@...>, <dev@...>, <linux-kernel@...>, <linux-fsdevel@...>, <torvalds@...>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pipefs unique inode numbers
Date: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 - 6:55 pm

On Tue, 30 Jan 2007, Bodo Eggert wrote:

I *really* wouldn't want to expose kernel addresses to user space, it just 
ends up being a piece of data that they shouldn't have. If we have some 
security issue, this is just too much kernel information that a bad user 
could get at.

		Linus
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[PATCH] pipefs unique inode numbers, Bodo Eggert, (Tue Jan 30, 6:40 pm)
Re: [PATCH] pipefs unique inode numbers, Jeff Layton, (Tue Jan 30, 9:19 pm)
Re: [PATCH] pipefs unique inode numbers, Jeff Layton, (Tue Jan 30, 9:37 pm)
Re: [PATCH] pipefs unique inode numbers, Linus Torvalds, (Tue Jan 30, 9:28 pm)
Re: [PATCH] pipefs unique inode numbers, Kirill Korotaev, (Wed Jan 31, 5:19 am)
Re: [PATCH] pipefs unique inode numbers, Jeff Layton, (Tue Jan 30, 10:02 pm)
Re: [PATCH] pipefs unique inode numbers, Linus Torvalds, (Tue Jan 30, 6:55 pm)
Re: [PATCH] pipefs unique inode numbers, Jeff Layton, (Tue Jan 30, 8:12 pm)