On Thu, 14 Sep 2017, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 06:21:28AM +1000, James Morris wrote: > > So, to be clear, this patch solves the XFS deadlock using a different > > approach (to the now reverted integrity_read approach), which Christoph > > also says is more correct generally. Correct? > > No. It is in addition to the previous patches - the patches were > correct for the IMA interaction with the I/O path. It just turns > out that the function was also reused for reading certificates > at initialization time, for which that change was incorrect. > > If this series is applied first the integrity_read code is not > used for that path any more.
Ok. Sorry I hadn't looked at the code in detail at this stage during the conference and wanting to just revert back to something that Linus can safely pull before the merge window closes. -- James Morris <jmor...@namei.org>
