Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755338AbXKCKdU (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Nov 2007 06:33:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753176AbXKCKdL (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Nov 2007 06:33:11 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:46367 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752401AbXKCKdK (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Nov 2007 06:33:10 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/10] 9p: sysfs support for in-kenel servers From: Peter Zijlstra To: Greg KH Cc: Latchesar Ionkov , v9fs-developer@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Christoph Lameter In-Reply-To: <20071103034812.GC16234@kroah.com> References: <20071102170527.GH16063@ionkov.net> <20071103034812.GC16234@kroah.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2007 11:33:05 +0100 Message-Id: <1194085985.27652.409.camel@twins> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 645 Lines: 15 On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 20:48 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > Also, a sysfs file that causes an action to happen just by reading the > file is not a safe thing to have. Lots of scripts have been known to > just walk the whole sysfs tree and open and read everything they can for > no real good reason. So you should seriously reconsider this kind of > interaction. Christoph, doesn't SLUB do exactly that? - 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/