Re: Could we include this in our kernel? vfs: make O_PATH file descriptors usable for fchdir()

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On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 04:15:49PM +0200, Michal Hlavinka wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was asked if we can add this patch to our kernel in Fedora.
> 
> It's for ability to open a directory with execute permission but
> without read permission.
> 
> Michal
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> 
> Michal, can you ask the Fedora Linux kernel people to backport this
> patch, please (this is going to be needed by both ksh93 and KDE4)?
> 
> Josh

It's already in 3.4.5, which we pushed to F16 and F17 yesterday.

commit 881aa809b005753a64fe9409c1d229912cc925ce
Author: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:   Sat Jul 7 10:17:00 2012 -0700

    vfs: make O_PATH file descriptors usable for 'fchdir()'
    
    commit 332a2e1244bd08b9e3ecd378028513396a004a24 upstream.
    

[jwboyer@zod linux-2.6]$ git describe --contains
881aa809b005753a64fe9409c1d229912cc925ce
v3.4.5~69
[jwboyer@zod linux-2.6]$

josh
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