Re: [RFC 0/28] Patches to pass vfsmount to LSM inode security hooks

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* Trond Myklebust (trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 18:44 +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > Just FYI:  Al was very opposed to the idea of passing the vfsmount to
> > the vfs_ helpers, so you should discuss this with him.
> > 
> > Looking at the actual patches I see you're lazy in a lot of places.
> > Please make sure that when you introduce a vfsmount argument somewhere
> > that it is _always_ passed and not just when it's conveniant.  Yes, that's
> > more work, but then again if you're not consistant anyone half-serious
> > will laught at a security model using this infrasturcture.
> 
> nfsd in particular tends to be a bit lazy about passing around vfsmount
> info. Forcing it to do so should not be hard since the vfsmount is
> already cached in the "struct export" (which can be found using the
> filehandle). It will take a bit of re-engineering in order to pass that
> information around inside the nfsd code, though.

Yeah, last time I looked at that it was always available, just a bit ugly
to go digging for the vfsmount.
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