On Apr 21 2007 08:10, Eric W. Biederman wrote: >> >>> Define a new fs flag FS_SAFE, which denotes, that unprivileged >>> mounting of this filesystem may not constitute a security problem. >>> >>> Since most filesystems haven't been designed with unprivileged >>> mounting in mind, a thorough audit is needed before setting this flag. >> >> Practically speaking, is there any realistic likelihood that any filesystem >> apart from FUSE will ever use this? > >Also potentially some of the kernel virtual filesystems. /proc should >be safe already. If you don't have any kind of backing store this problem >gets easier. tmpfs! Jan -- - 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
