Re: [PATCH 0/7] breaking the global file_list_lock

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 08:32:53AM -0500, Stephen Smalley wrote:
> >  - fs/selinuxfs.c:sel_remove_bools()
> > 
> > 	Utter madness.  I have no idea how this ever got merged.
> > 	Maybe the selinux folks can explain what crack they were
> > 	on when writing this.  The problem would go away with
> > 	a generic rewoke infrastructure.
> 
> It was modeled after proc_kill_inodes(), as noted in the comments.  So
> if you have a suitable replacement for proc_kill_inodes(), you can apply
> the same approach to sel_remove_bools().

Looking at it again sel_remove_bools actually only operates on files
backed by selinuxfs, so yes we could use the same approach.
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