Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 08:49:06 +0100
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
To: "Jack O'Quin" <joq@io.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>, Paul Davis <paul@linuxaudiosystems.com>,
       Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>, Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>,
       Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
       mingo@elte.hu, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [request for inclusion] Realtime LSM
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On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 07:43:29PM -0600, Jack O'Quin wrote:
> > This is straying from the core issue...  But, Arjan's saying that an RT
> > (non-root) task could trash the filesystem if it deadlocks the machine
> > (because those important fs and IO threads don't run).
> 
> Lexicographic ambiguity: Lee and Paul are using "trash" for things
> like installing a hidden suid root shell or co-opting sendmail into an
> open spam relay.  Arjan just means crashing the system which forces
> reboot to run fsck.

I actually meant data corruption.
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