From: Eric Paris Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:23:01 +0000 (-0500) Subject: anon_inodes: mark the anon inode private X-Git-Tag: v2.6.34-rc2~61 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3836a03d978e68b0ae00d3589089343c998cd4ff;p=pandora-kernel.git anon_inodes: mark the anon inode private Inotify was switched to use anon_inode instead of its own private filesystem which only had one inode in commit c44dcc56d2b5c7 "switch inotify_user to anon_inode" The problem with this is that now the inotify inode is not a distinct inode which can be managed by LSMs. userspace tools which use inotify were allowed to use the inotify inode but may not have had permission to do read/write type operations on the anon_inode. After looking at the anon_inode and its users it looks like the best solution is to just mark the anon_inode as S_PRIVATE so the security system will ignore it. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris Acked-by: James Morris Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Reading git-diff-tree failed