Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751971AbXA3W4q (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Jan 2007 17:56:46 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751964AbXA3W4q (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Jan 2007 17:56:46 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.24]:55555 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751960AbXA3W4p (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Jan 2007 17:56:45 -0500 Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 14:55:56 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds To: Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de> cc: akpm@osdl.org, Jeff Layton , dev@sw.ru, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] pipefs unique inode numbers In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 640 Lines: 18 On Tue, 30 Jan 2007, Bodo Eggert wrote: > > change pipefs to use a unique inode number equal to the memory > address unless it would be truncated. I *really* wouldn't want to expose kernel addresses to user space, it just ends up being a piece of data that they shouldn't have. If we have some security issue, this is just too much kernel information that a bad user could get at. Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/