On Tue, 08 Feb 2005 11:24:50 CST, Michael Halcrow said: > While the program is waiting for a keystroke, mount the block device. > Enter a keystroke. The result without the patch is 1, which is a > security violation. This occurs because the bd_release function will > bd_release(bdev) and set inode->i_security to NULL on the close(fd1).
Sounds like a bug, not a feature. Should it be zeroing out inode->i_security for an inode with a non-zero reference count?
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