Re: [PATCH v5 4/4] devcg: propagate local changes down the hierarchy

[Aristeu Rozanski]

On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 09:12:08PM +0000, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> Quoting Aristeu Rozanski (aris@xxxxxxxxxx):
> > +		} else {
> > +			/*
> > +			 * in the other possible cases:
> > +			 * root's behavior: allow, devcg's: deny
> > +			 * root's behavior: deny, devcg's: deny
> > +			 * the exception will be removed
> > +			 */
> 
> Technically this case isn't needed, right?  Will the dev_exception_rm()
> also be done by revalidate_active_exceptions()?  So it's safe (but
> not necessary) to drop the else here.  Though the comment is very
> informative, and it might be worth keeping the code as is for clarity.

that's correct, it'll end up being removed by
revalidate_active_exceptions(). if others have no objection, I'll keep
it

Thanks for the reviews Serge, much appreciated

-- 
Aristeu

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