Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 26 Dec 2008 19:30:19 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/5] VFS: DazukoFS, stackable-fs, file access control |
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On Wed 2008-12-24 13:11:29, John Ogness wrote: > On 2008-12-24, Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> wrote: > >> If you are aware of a race condition in DazukoFS, please report > >> it. Thank you. > > > > I'm surprised, do you claim there is none? > > It depends on how you want to define "race condition". DazukoFS (in > its current form) closes as many holes as default UNIX permissions or > SElinux. However, changing permissions (i.e. scanning files) _after_ > two parties already have an open handle to the file is currently not > covered. But this issue is not unique to DazukoFS (although as a > stackable filesystem, DazukoFS could support this case as well).
Not unique to dazukofs, but regression to scanning at nfsd level, right? So I guess it should be mentioned in changelog if you compare yourself to solutions that do not have this problem. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html
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