On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 3:00 PM, <Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 02 Aug 2010 13:20:01 +0200, Miklos Szeredi said: > >> Index: linux-2.6/fs/dcache.c >> =================================================================== >> --- linux-2.6.orig/fs/dcache.c 2010-07-06 18:08:16.000000000 +0200 >> +++ linux-2.6/fs/dcache.c 2010-07-06 18:08:19.000000000 +0200 >> @@ -1977,8 +1977,7 @@ global_root: >> * @buffer: buffer to return value in >> * @buflen: buffer length >> * >> - * Convert a dentry into an ASCII path name. If the entry has been deleted >> - * the string " (deleted)" is appended. Note that this is ambiguous. >> + * Convert a dentry into an ASCII path name. >> * >> * Returns a pointer into the buffer or an error code if the >> * path was too long. > > I'd prefer the comment about it being ambiguous remain. I'm waiting to see how > long it takes for somebody to create a security hole by creating a file called > '/etc/some/thing/important (deleted)' and having some software Do The Wrong > Thing instead to /etc/some/thing/important. > In order to close this kind of hole why not creating a deleted directory on /proc and redirect symbolic link to this directory. And do the same for unreachable. If we use the good permission it will work from a backaward compatibily point of view bastien -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
