Subject: Re: [PATCH v13 03/13] file: Export receive_fd() to modules

From: Al Viro <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2021 16:44:32 +0000

On Sun, Sep 05, 2021 at 11:57:22AM -0400, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 06:36:24PM +0800, Xie Yongji wrote:
> > Export receive_fd() so that some modules can use
> > it to pass file descriptor between processes without
> > missing any security stuffs.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Xie Yongji <[email-masked]>
> > Acked-by: Jason Wang <[email-masked]>
> 
> This needs some acks from fs devels.
> Viro?

*shrug*

I still think that having random ioctls messing with descriptor table
is a bad idea, and I'm not thrilled with the way it's currently
factored, but we can change that later.