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SubjectRe: Bad ext3/nfs DoS bug
Neil Brown wrote:
> On Wednesday July 26, sandeen@sandeen.net wrote:

>> Hm, with this, ext3.ko has a new dependency on exportfs.ko. Is that
>> desirable/acceptable?
>
> Drat, you're right.
> No, I don't think that is what we want.
> I'll do it differently in a day or so.

Would moving export_iget into fs/inode.c & exporting it from there be a
reasonable way to go? At least ext2 & ext3 both have this need (prevent
nfs access to special inodes) so putting the bulk of what they need for
get_dentry (i.e. export_iget) somewhere common seems like a decent
option to me.

-Eric
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