Re: [PATCH] autofs4 - detect invalid direct mount requests

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



Ian Kent <raven@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 14:17 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
>> On Fri, 20 Jun 2008 13:13:03 +0800
>> Ian Kent <raven@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 
>> > autofs v5 dierct and offset mounts within an autofs filesystem are
>> > triggered by existing autofs triger mounts so the mount point dentry
>> > must be positive. If the mount point dentry is negative then the
>> > trigger doesn't exist so we can return fail immediately.
>> > 
>> > Signed-off-by: Ian Kent <raven@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> > 
>> > ---
>> > 
>> >  fs/autofs4/waitq.c |    4 ++++
>> >  1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>> > 
>> > 
>> > diff --git a/fs/autofs4/waitq.c b/fs/autofs4/waitq.c
>> > index cd21fd4..ae637d9 100644
>> > --- a/fs/autofs4/waitq.c
>> > +++ b/fs/autofs4/waitq.c
>> > @@ -307,6 +307,10 @@ int autofs4_wait(struct autofs_sb_info *sbi, struct dentry *dentry,
>> >  	if (sbi->catatonic)
>> >  		return -ENOENT;
>> >  
>> > +	if (!dentry->d_inode &&
>> > +	    (sbi->type & (AUTOFS_TYPE_DIRECT | AUTOFS_TYPE_OFFSET)))
>> > +		return -ENOENT;
>> > +
>> >  	name = kmalloc(NAME_MAX + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
>> >  	if (!name)
>> >  		return -ENOMEM;
>> 
>> A good changelog would allow little old me to determine whether this
>> patch should be merged into 2.6.25 and/or 2.6.26 and/or 2.6.27.  This
>> wasn't a good changelog :(
>
> Sorry, I guess I shouldn't have included it along with the other more
> serious bug fixes. It gets rid of an annoyance more than anything as the
> daemon still has to check for it.
>
> It isn't important or urgent, just useful.

And I'd still like to see a comment in there!  ;)

-jeff
--
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

[Index of Archives]     [Linux Ext4 Filesystem]     [Union Filesystem]     [Filesystem Testing]     [Ceph Users]     [Ecryptfs]     [AutoFS]     [Kernel Newbies]     [Share Photos]     [Security]     [Netfilter]     [Bugtraq]     [Yosemite News]     [MIPS Linux]     [ARM Linux]     [Linux Security]     [Linux Cachefs]     [Reiser Filesystem]     [Linux RAID]     [Samba]     [Device Mapper]     [CEPH Development]
  Powered by Linux