From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758897AbYIDUhX (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Sep 2008 16:37:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757964AbYIDUfG (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Sep 2008 16:35:06 -0400 Received: from out02.mta.xmission.com ([166.70.13.232]:32905 "EHLO out02.mta.xmission.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760341AbYIDUe7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Sep 2008 16:34:59 -0400 From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) To: Andrew Morton Cc: Linus Torvalds , Stephen Rothwell , linux-next@vger.kernel.org, LKML , Yinghai Lu , Ivan Kokshaysky , Jesse Barnes , netdev@vger.kernel.org, Al Viro , David Woodhouse , Sam Ravnborg , john stultz , Thomas Gleixner References: <20080903191619.6b6b230e.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> <20080903214634.ea17ff53.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080903223318.84b6ce8b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080904012544.cabed847.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080904015701.5959623a.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080904104554.32ffebea.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080904113408.d47c65f6.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2008 13:31:01 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20080904113408.d47c65f6.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (Andrew Morton's message of "Thu, 4 Sep 2008 11:34:08 -0700") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-XM-SPF: eid=;;;mid=;;;hst=mx04.mta.xmission.com;;;ip=24.130.11.59;;;frm=ebiederm@xmission.com;;;spf=neutral X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 24.130.11.59 X-SA-Exim-Rcpt-To: too long (recipient list exceeded maximum allowed size of 128 bytes) X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ebiederm@xmission.com X-Spam-DCC: XMission; sa03 1397; Body=1 Fuz1=1 Fuz2=1 X-Spam-Combo: ;Andrew Morton X-Spam-Relay-Country: X-Spam-Report: * -1.8 ALL_TRUSTED Passed through trusted hosts only via SMTP * 0.0 T_TM2_M_HEADER_IN_MSG BODY: T_TM2_M_HEADER_IN_MSG * -2.6 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% * [score: 0.0000] * -0.0 DCC_CHECK_NEGATIVE Not listed in DCC * [sa03 1397; Body=1 Fuz1=1 Fuz2=1] * 0.0 XM_SPF_Neutral SPF-Neutral Subject: Re: linux-next: Tree for September 3 X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Thu, 07 Dec 2006 04:40:56 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on mx04.mta.xmission.com) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andrew Morton writes: > On Thu, 4 Sep 2008 11:05:21 -0700 (PDT) Linus Torvalds > wrote: > >> > This is a pull of your tree from yesterday, ending at commit >> > fbb16e243887332dd5754e48ffe5b963378f3cd2 >> >> There's been various suggested patches by Al/Eric (added to cc) for >> /proc/net handling, but none of them have actually even been merged yet. >> So I don't think this code has changed in a while. >> >> Al, Eric, ideas? There aren't any issues I know of with normal configurations and the current proc code. > I don't think I saw it on any other test machines. > > This machine runs SELinux. Distro is FC5. >> > config: http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/config-sony.txt >> > dmesg: http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/dmesg-sony-without.txt >> >> That whole thing should just be a simple symlink: >> >> fs/proc/proc_net.c: proc_symlink("net", NULL, "self/net"); > > /proc/self/net looks fine. > >> are you sure it's a plain tree of mine, without any of the patches >> floating around between Eric/Al? > > yup, it's yesterday's mainline. Does the problem happen if you disable selinux? This feels like a case of selinux being over zealous. Eric