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    sysfs: fail dentry revalidation after namespace change · e5bcac61
    Glauber Costa authored
    When we change the namespace tag of a sysfs entry, the associated dentry
    is still kept around. readdir() will work correctly and not display the
    old entries, but open() will still succeed, so will reads and writes.
    
    This will no longer happen if sysfs is remounted, hinting that this is a
    cache-related problem.
    
    I am using the following sequence to demonstrate that:
    
    shell1:
    ip link add type veth
    unshare -nm
    
    shell2:
    ip link set veth1 <pid_of_shell_1>
    cat /sys/devices/virtual/net/veth1/ifindex
    
    Before that patch, this will succeed (fail to fail). After it, it will
    correctly return an error. Differently from a normal rename, which we
    handle fine, changing the object namespace will keep it's path intact.
    So this check seems necessary as well.
    
    [ v2: get type from parent, as suggested by Eric Biederman ]
    Signed-off-by: default avatarGlauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
    CC: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
    Reviewed-by: default avatar"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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