2011/8/4 Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>: > Hi Pavel, > > We have a bit of a problem... > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=727834 > > The shared superblock patches seem to have broken the ability to mount > directories that live under other directories to which the mounting > user doesn't have permissions. > > IOW, suppose we have this shared out: > > /share/dir1/dir2 > > ...if the permissions on dir1 don't allow the mounting user to access > it, then cifs_get_root will fail. We'll need to come up with a new > scheme for handling this that doesn't require access to every component > of the prefixpath. > > I'm not sure what the right fix is here...we may need to come up with a > scheme more like NFS does. It will alter the tree when it discovers > that a root dir that it previously was working on is actually a subdir > of another mount. > > Thoughts? > -- > Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> > Thanks for the report. I understand the problem, let me think how to fix it right. -- Best regards, Pavel Shilovsky. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
