Re: [PATCH v13 03/13] file: Export receive_fd() to modules

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On Sun, Sep 05, 2021 at 11:57:22AM -0400, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 06:36:24PM +0800, Xie Yongji wrote:
> > Export receive_fd() so that some modules can use
> > it to pass file descriptor between processes without
> > missing any security stuffs.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Xie Yongji <xieyongji@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Acked-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> This needs some acks from fs devels.
> Viro?

*shrug*

I still think that having random ioctls messing with descriptor table
is a bad idea, and I'm not thrilled with the way it's currently
factored, but we can change that later.
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