On Mon, 5 Mar 2007, Davide Libenzi wrote:
> @@ -763,15 +767,17 @@
> * using the inode number.
> */
> error = -ENOMEM;
> - sprintf(name, "[%lu]", inode->i_ino);
> this.name = name;
> - this.len = strlen(name);
> - this.hash = inode->i_ino;
> + this.len = sprintf(name, "[%p]", ep);
> + this.hash = 0;
Please don't expose kernel pointers to user space.
It's much better to do something like
static unsigned int epoll_inode;
this.len = sprintf(name, "[%u]", ++epoll_inode);
if you just need some pseudo-unique name to distinguish two epoll things
from each other (vs from a dup'ed fd).
Linus
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