Hi! > This is the second attempt to fix this problem. The first one attempted > to fix this in procfs, but Eric Biederman pointed out that file bind > mounts have a similar problem. This set attempts to fix the issue at a > higher level, in the generic VFS layer. > > In certain situations, when it knows that they are valid, the path > walking code will skip revalidating dentries that it finds in the cache. > This causes problems with filesystems such as NFSv4 and CIFS that depend > on the d_revalidate routine to do opens during lookup. ...and it allows bypassing directory permissions. Could we fix both here? Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- 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
