On Mon, Oct 08, 2018 at 06:50:10PM +0200, Ahmad Fatoum wrote: > The referenced commit 1da4d377f94 ("proc: revalidate misc dentries") > caused following userspace code to access a stale /proc/net/dev > after the network namespace was changed:
> Despite switching the network namespace, the read access from the > newly opened file gave back what the very first read in the default > network namespace returned. What the hell does that have to do with negative dentries anywhere??? NAK. Rationale makes no sense _and_ the patch has nothing to do with claimed rationale.