Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.1 35/70] loop: Don't change loop device under exclusive opener

From: Jan Kara
Date: Mon Jun 10 2019 - 05:04:38 EST


On Sat 08-06-19 07:39:14, Sasha Levin wrote:
> From: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
>
> [ Upstream commit 33ec3e53e7b1869d7851e59e126bdb0fe0bd1982 ]

Please don't push this to stable kernels because...

> [Deliberately chosen not to CC stable as a user with priviledges to
> trigger this race has other means of taking the system down and this
> has a potential of breaking some weird userspace setup]

... of this. Thanks!

Honza
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Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx>
SUSE Labs, CR