kernfs seems to have disappeared between 4.7-REL and 4.8-REL, but I couldn't find any mention of this in any of 4.8-REL docs, where/why did it go? -Paul-
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 06:15:29PM +0100, Paul Civati wrote:> > kernfs seems to have disappeared between 4.7-REL and 4.8-REL, but I couldn't > find any mention of this in any of 4.8-REL docs, where/why did it go?I still see it under 4.8-STABLE as of a week ago. (I don't think an old module would work under a new kernel - ps was screwed up until I installed a proper world). --- praxis:~$ df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on [snip] kernfs 1 1 0 100% /kern [...] ylum-gw:/usr/home 15646296 8420424 5974169 58% /nfs/ylum praxis:~$ ls /kern bootfile copyright hz pagesize time boottime hostname loadavg physmem version praxis:~$ cat /kern/loadavg 144 93 21 2048 praxis:~$ uname -a FreeBSD praxis.lunabase.org 4.8-STABLE FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE #8: Thu Jul 3 20:43:54 PDT 2003 root@praxis.lunabase.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PRAXIS i386 --- -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 187 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/attachments/20030712/e74c75ef/attachment.bin
Paul Civati <paul@xciv.org> writes:> kernfs seems to have disappeared between 4.7-REL and 4.8-REL, but I couldn't > find any mention of this in any of 4.8-REL docs, where/why did it go?It was removed because it served no discernible purpose and was highly suspect from a security standpoint. What do you need it for? DES -- Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav - des@des.no
Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote:> [kernfs] was removed because it served no discernible purpose and was highly > suspect from a security standpoint. What do you need it for?This seems entirely reasonable to me. The problem is obviously that many people were taken by surprise.
Maybe Matching Threads
- [PATCH driver-core-linus] kernfs: kernfs_notify() must be useable from non-sleepable contexts
- [PATCH driver-core-linus] kernfs: kernfs_notify() must be useable from non-sleepable contexts
- [PATCH driver-core-linus] kernfs: kernfs_notify() must be useable from non-sleepable contexts
- [PATCH driver-core-linus] kernfs: kernfs_notify() must be useable from non-sleepable contexts
- SSH/v1 dead processes bug