Re: pipe_release oops.

From: Dave Jones
Date: Tue Mar 12 2013 - 15:56:57 EST


On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 07:43:53PM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 08:31:50AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> > Probably not missing anything subtle. I think all of this code is very
> > old, and related to previous /proc/<pid>/fd/<n> escapades. And the
> > semantics for those files were in flux some time long long ago (the
> > whole "dup vs new struct file" issue), it's all just duct-tape, I
> > think.
>
> Umm... How about the following, then? I think it makes the whole thing
> simpler and saner... NOTE: this got only a light beating and we'd
> just seen an example of long-standing breakage in that area; I'd really
> like to see it tortured by Dave's scripts before it gets merged into
> mainline.

I can do that. I'll holler if I see anything that looks out of place.

Dave

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