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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm] proc: fixup test for read
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On Sat, 17 Mar 2018 02:21:47 +0300 Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> wrote:

> /proc/kmsg can and will block if read under root.
> 

This fixes
proc-shotgun-test-read-readdir-readlink-a-little-write.patch.  It helps
to point that out, so that reviewers won't be scrambling around
asking wtf.