From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] eCryptfs: Do not try to open device files on mknod
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 12:17:29 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080711121729.af5750de.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080709222148.GB6773@halcrowt61p.austin.ibm.com>
On Wed, 9 Jul 2008 17:21:48 -0500 Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> When creating device nodes, eCryptfs needs to delay actually opening
> the lower persistent file until an application tries to open. Device
> handles may not be backed by anything when they first come into
> existence.
Generates a reject against your eariler
ecryptfs-privileged-kthread-for-lower-file-opens.patch.
It was easy enough to fix, but I'd sugest that you raise and test new
patches against at least the other pending ones, rather than against virgin
mainline. Because stuff happens...
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-11 19:18 UTC|newest]
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2008-07-09 22:21 Michael Halcrow
2008-07-11 19:17 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
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