Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2009 21:03:34 -0500
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, jmorris@namei.org,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] CRED: Fix regression in cap_capable() as shown up by
	sys_faccessat() [ver #2]
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On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 11:03:26PM +0000, David Howells wrote:
> J. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org> wrote:
> 
> > More precisely:
> > 	- The last working commit is b6dff3ec... "CRED: Separate task
> > 	  security context from task_struct".
> > 	- The first commit exhibiting the permissions problem is
> > 	  a6f76f2... "CRED: Make execve() take advantage of
> > 	  copy-on-write credentials".
> > 	- The 9 commits in between (from f1752eec to d84f4f9) result in
> > 	  a soft lookup on boot.
> 
> Okay, I'll have a look at that, but did you manage to find out if the patch I
> posted fixed the problem you originally mentioned?

I tested that patch, yes, but it didn't fix the problem.

--b.
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