Re: [RFC] corner cases of open() on procfs symlinks

[Linus Torvalds]

On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 11:29 AM, Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Probably...  procfs symlinks neutering O_DIRECTORY might, in theory, be usable
> to cook something nasty, but I don't see any obvious ways to exploit that.
> FWIW, resulting kernel seems to survive the minimal beating, but obviously
> more is needed.

Let's plan on merging that patch in the 3.11 merge window, and perhaps
mark it for stable?

                 Linus
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