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Re: [PATCH, RFC] Char dev BKL pushdown v2

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To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@...>
Cc: Roland Dreier <rdreier@...>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...>, Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...>, Alan Cox <alan@...>, Alexander Viro <viro@...>, <linux-kernel@...>, Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...>
Date: Monday, May 19, 2008 - 10:10 pm

On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 04:56:24PM -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote:

There's the case where one thread is calling ioctl on the new
descriptor before open (in other thread) has returned (it's malicious
and trying to oops you, it's accidentally trying to operate on a
closed descriptor, etc).  It might hit the window between the
descripor being installed and open returning.

	  		      Jeff

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[PATCH, RFC] Char dev BKL pushdown v2, Jonathan Corbet, (Sun May 18, 6:15 pm)
Re: [PATCH, RFC] Char dev BKL pushdown v2, Stefan Richter, (Mon May 19, 1:46 pm)
Re: [PATCH, RFC] Char dev BKL pushdown v2, Stefan Richter, (Mon May 19, 3:27 pm)
Re: [PATCH, RFC] Char dev BKL pushdown v2, Stefan Richter, (Mon May 19, 4:07 pm)
Re: [PATCH, RFC] Char dev BKL pushdown v2, Ingo Molnar, (Mon May 19, 9:17 am)
Re: [PATCH, RFC] Char dev BKL pushdown v2, Stephen Rothwell, (Mon May 19, 12:03 am)
Re: [PATCH, RFC] Char dev BKL pushdown v2 , Jonathan Corbet, (Mon May 19, 9:46 am)
Re: [PATCH, RFC] Char dev BKL pushdown v2, Roland Dreier, (Mon May 19, 12:00 am)
Re: [PATCH, RFC] Char dev BKL pushdown v2 , Jonathan Corbet, (Mon May 19, 9:37 am)
Re: [PATCH, RFC] Char dev BKL pushdown v2, Roland Dreier, (Mon May 19, 4:38 pm)
Re: [PATCH, RFC] Char dev BKL pushdown v2 , Jonathan Corbet, (Mon May 19, 4:42 pm)
Re: [PATCH, RFC] Char dev BKL pushdown v2, Roland Dreier, (Mon May 19, 6:18 pm)
Re: [PATCH, RFC] Char dev BKL pushdown v2, Alan Cox, (Tue May 20, 4:26 am)
Re: [PATCH, RFC] Char dev BKL pushdown v2 , Jonathan Corbet, (Mon May 19, 6:56 pm)
Re: [PATCH, RFC] Char dev BKL pushdown v2, Jeff Dike, (Mon May 19, 10:10 pm)
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