Re: [PATCH v13 03/13] file: Export receive_fd() to modules
From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Date: 2021-09-05 16:53:59
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On Sun, Sep 05, 2021 at 11:57:22AM -0400, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
On Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 06:36:24PM +0800, Xie Yongji wrote:quoted
Export receive_fd() so that some modules can use it to pass file descriptor between processes without missing any security stuffs. Signed-off-by: Xie Yongji <redacted> Acked-by: Jason Wang <redacted>This needs some acks from fs devels. Viro?
*shrug* I still think that having random ioctls messing with descriptor table is a bad idea, and I'm not thrilled with the way it's currently factored, but we can change that later.