Quoting Andrew Morton (akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx):
> On Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:40:14 +0800
> Ian Kent <raven@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Patch to track the uid and gid of the last process to request a mount
> > for on an autofs dentry.
>
> pet peeve: changelog should not tell the reader that this is a "patch".
> Because when someone is reading the changelog in the git repository,
> they hopefully already know that.
>
> > Signed-off-by: Ian Kent <raven@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > ---
> >
> > fs/autofs4/autofs_i.h | 3 +++
> > fs/autofs4/inode.c | 2 ++
> > fs/autofs4/waitq.c | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > 3 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> >
> >
> > diff --git a/fs/autofs4/autofs_i.h b/fs/autofs4/autofs_i.h
> > index ea024d8..fa76d18 100644
> > --- a/fs/autofs4/autofs_i.h
> > +++ b/fs/autofs4/autofs_i.h
> > @@ -63,6 +63,9 @@ struct autofs_info {
> > unsigned long last_used;
> > atomic_t count;
> >
> > + uid_t uid;
> > + gid_t gid;
> > +
> > mode_t mode;
> > size_t size;
> >
> > diff --git a/fs/autofs4/inode.c b/fs/autofs4/inode.c
> > index 9ca2d07..9408507 100644
> > --- a/fs/autofs4/inode.c
> > +++ b/fs/autofs4/inode.c
> > @@ -53,6 +53,8 @@ struct autofs_info *autofs4_init_ino(struct autofs_info *ino,
> > atomic_set(&ino->count, 0);
> > }
> >
> > + ino->uid = 0;
> > + ino->gid = 0;
> > ino->mode = mode;
> > ino->last_used = jiffies;
> >
> > diff --git a/fs/autofs4/waitq.c b/fs/autofs4/waitq.c
> > index 6d87bb1..7c60c0b 100644
> > --- a/fs/autofs4/waitq.c
> > +++ b/fs/autofs4/waitq.c
> > @@ -457,6 +457,40 @@ int autofs4_wait(struct autofs_sb_info *sbi, struct dentry *dentry,
> >
> > status = wq->status;
> >
> > + /*
> > + * For direct and offset mounts we need to track the requestrer
>
> typo which I'll fix.
>
> > + * uid and gid in the dentry info struct. This is so it can be
> > + * supplied, on request, by the misc device ioctl interface.
> > + * This is needed during daemon resatart when reconnecting
> > + * to existing, active, autofs mounts. The uid and gid (and
> > + * related string values) may be used for macro substitution
> > + * in autofs mount maps.
Hi Ian,
could you say just a few more words on these macro substitution?
I think your use of uids can completely ignore user namespaces, but it
depends on who does the macro substitutions and how...
thanks,
-serge
> > + */
> > + if (!status) {
> > + struct autofs_info *ino;
> > + struct dentry *de = NULL;
> > +
> > + /* direct mount or browsable map */
> > + ino = autofs4_dentry_ino(dentry);
> > + if (!ino) {
> > + /* If not lookup actual dentry used */
> > + de = d_lookup(dentry->d_parent, &dentry->d_name);
> > + if (de)
> > + ino = autofs4_dentry_ino(de);
> > + }
> > +
> > + /* Set mount requester */
> > + if (ino) {
> > + spin_lock(&sbi->fs_lock);
> > + ino->uid = wq->uid;
> > + ino->gid = wq->gid;
> > + spin_unlock(&sbi->fs_lock);
> > + }
> > +
> > + if (de)
> > + dput(de);
> > + }
> > +
>
> Please remind me again why autofs's use of current->uid and
> current->gid is not busted in the presence of PID namespaces, where
> these things are no longer system-wide unique?
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