Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [patch 00/13] vfs: add helpers to check r/o bind mounts | From | Miklos Szeredi <> | Date | Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:15:33 +0200 |
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> > > > let alone removing the interface that doesn't require checks to be > > > > vfsmount-based for all users. > > > > > > What users? There are paractically _no_ other users. The ones that > > > there are (like reiserfs) should not be using them, and there are > > > already some patches cleaning that mess up. > > > > OK, explain me, in small words, WTF should something that wants to do > > operations on filesystem tree have a vfsmount. Slowly. And "r/o > > bind loses value if it can be bypassed" is a hogwash - fs methods are > > still there, so it *can* be bypassed just fine, thank you very much. > > And we know what to do with such users.
Which begs the question: why is ecryptfs doing that with the xattr methods? Does it need to bypass the permission checks? Seems very fishy to me.
Mike?
Miklos
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