Re: [RFC] Add vfsmount to vfs helper functions.

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On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 09:03:51AM +0900, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> > No printable comments, except for that:
> > 
> > (e) why don't you guys move the Linus' Serious Mistake to _callers_ of
> > vfs_mknod() and its ilk?
> > 
> > Which obviously solves all problems with having vfsmount.
> 
> Excuse me. I didn't understand what "the Linus' Serious Mistake to
> _callers_ of vfs_mknod()" is. Could you give me some URLs or hints?

Linus' Serious Mistake: LSM.

Moving that junk to callers for vfs_mknod(): should be obvious; remove
the calls of security_whatever() from vfs_...() and add them in places
that call the functions in question.
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