On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 08:54:04PM +0200, David Herrmann wrote: > Open questions: > * Obviously, we need to protect all calls into file->f_op->xyz(). This series > provides enter_file() and leave_file() that can be used like: > if (enter_file(file)) > retval = file->f_op->xyz(file, ...); > else > retval = -ENODEV; > Question is, should we do this at the time we actually invoke those > callbacks or should we do it at the syscall-entry time?
The former, obviously. The real bitch is around mmap - you don't need that for evdev, but generic solution would better deal with that kind of crap. I'll post a review once I'm done with Eric's patchset; hopefully tonight or tomorrow morning. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
