On Sat, 27 Jul 2002, Seth Arnold wrote: > > Matthew, thanks for the patch. However, I'm not sure that the "blocking" > field can be removed without opening up some race conditions. > > Please see the following analysis of the situation by Antony Edwards, > and make sure that removing the blocking field is still safe: This should be a non-issue, since current 2.5.x passes the "struct file" pointer around, not the file descriptor. So there should be no race, because everybody uses the same "struct file *" everywhere, and nobody re-gets the file pointer twice any more. (Yeah, I'm too lazy to double-check that this is 100% true, but it _should_ all have been fixed a few weeks ago). Linus _______________________________________________ linux-security-module mailing list linux-security-moduleat_private http://mail.wirex.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-security-module
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