Re: [RFC] Changes to the LSM file-related hooks for 2.5.58

Christoph Hellwig (hch@infradead.org)
Wed, 15 Jan 2003 15:56:24 +0000


On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 10:44:52AM -0500, Stephen D. Smalley wrote:
>
> "Andi Kleen" <ak@muc.de> writes:
> > Adding release_private_file requires fixing all code that uses
> > init_private_file (including possible third party code). Otherwise
> > you have some subtle leak. It would better to rename init_private_file to
> > some other name and add appropiate comments so that this can be catched
> > easily at compile time.
>
> Thanks for the suggestion. I've split out this logical change into a
> separate patch and reworked it in accordance with your suggestion. See
> below. Let me know if this does not address your concern.

Once you're at it please aqdd an argument to set file.f_flags so the
caller can set O_LARGEFILE properly. The (unmerged) XFS dmapi code wants
that.

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