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Re: SPEC failures

To: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: SPEC failures
From: Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 14:34:21 -0500
Cc: Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>, Ken Cross <kcross@xxxxxxxxx>, Linux XFS <linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx>
In-reply-to: Message from Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx> of "Wed, 15 Aug 2001 19:54:24 +0200." <20010815195424.A22872@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sender: owner-linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
> On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 10:30:46AM -0500, Steve Lord wrote:
> > Andrew had the approach of setting the umask of the nfsd process to 0 at
> > startup, there was some other reason for this not being popular.
> 
> He did it for init_task, which disturbed all other kernel threads too
> and opened tons of security holes.
> The right way IMHO is to give nfsd an own fs_struct and set umask there,
> as in this patch.
> 
> -Andi

Thanks,

Care to try this one on Neil Brown or Trond? I wonder if the acl project
has run into the same issue? The tricky part in justifying this is nothing
in the main kernel needs this change right now.

Steve



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