On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 05:09:58PM -0700, Ram Pai wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 3:11 PM, Valerie Aurora <vaurora@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Passing the CL_NO_SLAVE flag to clone_mnt() causes the clone
> > to fail if the source mnt is a slave.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Valerie Aurora <vaurora@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > fs/namespace.c | 3 +++
> > fs/pnode.h | 1 +
> > 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/fs/namespace.c b/fs/namespace.c
> > index eeb4c22..6956062 100644
> > --- a/fs/namespace.c
> > +++ b/fs/namespace.c
> > @@ -565,6 +565,9 @@ static struct vfsmount *clone_mnt(struct vfsmount *old,
> > struct dentry *root,
> > if ((flag & CL_NO_SHARED) && (IS_MNT_SHARED(old)))
> > return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
> >
> > + if ((flag & CL_NO_SLAVE) && (IS_MNT_SLAVE(old)))
> > + return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
> > +
> >
>
>
> its been a while and my memory may have corroded. But I dont think this
> check is needed. Because cloning a 'slave mount' makes the mount a 'private
> mount' and not a 'slave mount'.
There is one case where a 'slave mount' when cloned can generate a 'slave mount', and
that is when the 'slave mount' is also a 'shared mount'. So the above check has to
be
if ((flag & CL_NO_SLAVE) && (IS_MNT_SLAVE(old) && IS_MNT_SHARED(old)))
return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
RP
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