Re: [PATCH 2.6.5-mm4] sys_access race fix

[viro]

On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 08:11:02AM +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Do races in access() actually matter?  I mean, some other process could
> > change things a nanosecond after access() has completed and the value which
> > the access() caller received is wrong anyway.
> 
> What about the effect access() has on other callers?  It temporarily
> changes current->fsuid, so fs operations in other completely
> independent threads are affected.

Huh?  What does changing a field of tast_struct have to do with behaviour
of some other threads?
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