On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 10:38:48PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > The upshot is that the directory has this persistent dentry for a
> > > nonexistent file, so it doesn't get released, so it doesn't drop its
> > > reference to its kobject, so the kobject doesn't get released.
> > > 
> 
> Does this mean that an unprivileged user can open a file in that directory,
> keep it open indefinitely and hence cause khubd to hang?

Yes, that's an issue that we have had since we added this "wait till the
interface goes away" patch.

I'll work on fixing that right now, as it seems the proper thing to do.

thanks,

greg k-h


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