On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 19:52 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 02:05:30PM -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote: > > From: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > > do_kern_mount() does not allow the kernel to use private mount interfaces > > without exposing the same interfaces to userland. The problem is that the > > filesystem is referenced by name, thus meaning that it and its mount > > interface must be registered in the global filesystem list. > > > > vfs_kern_mount() passes the struct file_system_type as an explicit > > parameter in order to overcome this limitation. > > Looks good. In addition please switch kern_mount to use it instead > of converting from struct file_system_type to name and back. Also > all other callers of do_kern_mount except for do_new_mount should > probably use it directly instead of doing the name lookup. Except > for simple_pin_fs() which will need a paramter change all those > would be trivial aswell. So instead of adding another entry point care > to switch the existing one to saner prototype and the sane name? That sounds reasonable. By 'switch to the sane name' you do mean convert all uses of 'do_kern_mount' to 'vfs_kern_mount'? Cheers, Trond - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
