Re: [PATCH 00/17] VFS: Filesystem information and notifications [ver #17]

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On Fri, Mar 6, 2020 at 9:49 PM Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Mar 06, 2020 at 08:45:23PM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 06, 2020 at 08:38:44PM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> > > On Fri, Mar 06, 2020 at 08:37:05PM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> > >
> > > > You are misreading mntput_no_expire(), BTW - your get_mount() can
> > > > bloody well race with umount(2), hitting the moment when we are done
> > > > figuring out whether it's busy but hadn't cleaned ->mnt_ns (let alone
> > > > set MNT_DOOMED) yet.  If somebody calls umount(2) on a filesystem that
> > > > is not mounted anywhere else, they are not supposed to see the sucker
> > > > return 0 until the filesystem is shut down.  You break that.
> > >
> > > While we are at it, d_alloc_parallel() requires i_rwsem on parent held
> > > at least shared.
> >
> > Egads...  Let me see if I got it right - you are providing procfs symlinks
> > to objects on the internal mount of that thing.  And those objects happen
> > to be directories, so one can get to their parent that way.  Or am I misreading
> > that thing?
>
> IDGI.  You have (in your lookup) kstrtoul, followed by snprintf, followed
> by strcmp and WARN_ON() in case of mismatch?  Is there any point in having
> stat(2) on "00" spew into syslog?  Confused...

The WARN_ON() is for the buffer overrun, not for the strcmp mismatch.

Thanks,
Miklos



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