Re: [PATCH] tracefs: Do not allocate and free proxy_ops for lockdown

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Fri Oct 11 2019 - 15:25:10 EST


On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 11:36 AM Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 11 Oct 2019 11:20:30 -0700
> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Willing to do that instead?
>
> Honestly, what you described was my preferred solution ;-)
>
> I just didn't want to upset the lockdown crowd if a new tracefs file
> was opened without doing this.

Well, since they introduced a bug in your code that killed your
machine with the patch _they_ did, I don't think they get to complain
when you fix it the way you (and me) want to...

Fair is fair.

Linus