On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 17:15 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > Is there any way in which we can prevent these problems? Say The problem here is that we occasionally DO need to add new flags, and yes, they MAY be security related. The whole reason why we're now having to change the semantics of setattr is because somebody tried to hack their way around the write+suid issue. I suspect we will see the exact same thing will happen again in a couple of years with Serge's ATTR_KILL_PRIV flag. > - rename something so that unconverted filesystems will reliably fail to > compile? > > - leave existing filesystems alone, but add a new > inode_operations.setattr_jeff, which the networked filesytems can > implement, and teach core vfs to call setattr_jeff in preference to > setattr? If you really need to know that the filesystem is handling the flags, then how about instead having ->setattr() return something which indicates which flags it actually handled? That is likely to be a far more intrusive change, but it is one which is future-proof. Trond - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
