On Thu, 2010-04-08 at 23:38 +0200, Edward Shishkin wrote: > Jeff Mahoney wrote: > > [...] This patch resolves the issue by properly hiding .reiserfs_priv. This > > was the intent of the xattr poisoning code, but it appears to have > > never worked as expected. This is fixed by using d_revalidate instead > > of d_compare. [...] The patch seems to rely on the fact that the priv_root dentry is stuck in the dcache for as long as the filesystem is mounted, so that attempts to follow ".reiserfs_priv" are guaranteed to match that dentry in the cache and be refused by xattr_hide_revalidate. Is my understanding correct? -- Matt -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe reiserfs-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
