Re: [PATCH] get rid of s_files and files_lock

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On 2015/4/29 19:00, Wang Kai wrote:
> From: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> commit eee5cc2702929fd41cce28058dc6d6717f723f87 upstream.
> 
> The only thing we need it for is alt-sysrq-r (emergency remount r/o)
> and these days we can do just as well without going through the
> list of files.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> [wangkai: backport to 3.10
>  - address CVE-2014-8172
>  - adjust context
>  - leave fu.fu_list as still used in 3.10]

This doesn't sound right to me. We're removing operations on fu_list like
init/add/del, so how can it still be used?

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