Re: Semi up to date JOBS list

From: Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Date: Tue Jun 13 2000 - 14:45:42 EST


On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Alan Cox wrote:

> Security
> --------
> Fix module remove race bug (mostly done - Al Viro)

In progress. Right now.

> exec loader permissions

If that's MAY_EXEC and -o noexec stuff - done when you had applied the
write_access patch (loader is opened by open_exec(), so shifting the
checks there extended them to loader).

> Fix hpfs_unlink (Al Viro)

Eh? You've applied that patch already.

> To Do
> -----
> mount crashes on Alpha platforms

Oh? Gimme.

> Tulip hang on rmmod/crashes sometimes
> Devfs races, Sockfs (removing NULL ->i_sb stuf) (Al Viro)

sockfs is (in limited variant, but we are unlikely to get more and it
doesn ->i_sb/->f_vfsmnt) done in dcache-threading patch.

> Locking on getcwd
Fixed in dcache patch.

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