Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) So now you
take a subtle bug, and make it even more subtle, and encourage people
to do this known-broken model of using creds at IO time.
No.
No.
Some debugging option to just clear current->creds entirely and catch mis-uses, sure. But saying "we have shit buggy garbage in random write functions, so we'll just paper over it"? No.
functions, so we'll just paper over it"? No.
Linus
Linus
Linus
No.
Some debugging option to just clear current->creds entirely and catch mis-uses, sure. But saying "we have shit buggy garbage in random write functions, so we'll just paper over it"? No.
functions, so we'll just paper over it"? No.
Linus
Linus
Linus