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    Revert "fs: Allow unprivileged linkat(..., AT_EMPTY_PATH) aka flink" · f0cc6ffb
    Linus Torvalds authored
    This reverts commit bb2314b4
    
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    It wasn't necessarily wrong per se, but we're still busily discussing
    the exact details of this all, so I'm going to revert it for now.
    
    It's true that you can already do flink() through /proc and that flink()
    isn't new.  But as Brad Spengler points out, some secure environments do
    not mount proc, and flink adds a new interface that can avoid path
    lookup of the source for those kinds of environments.
    
    We may re-do this (and even mark it for stable backporting back in 3.11
    and possibly earlier) once the whole discussion about the interface is done.
    
    Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
    Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
    Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
    Cc: Brad Spengler <spender@grsecurity.net>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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