On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 9:20 AM, Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 02:32:15PM +0100, David Howells wrote: >> >> The attached patches provide security support for unioned files where the >> security involves an object-label-based LSM (such as SELinux) rather than a >> path-based LSM. >> >> The patches can be broken down into a number of sets: >> >> (1) A small patch to drop a lock earlier in overlayfs. The main VFS patch >> touches the same code, so I put this first. >> >> (2) The main VFS patch that makes an open file struct referring to a union >> file have ->f_path point to the union/overlay file whilst ->f_inode and >> ->f_mapping refer to the subordinate file that does the actual work. > > #1 and #2 applied, will be in tomorrow vfs.git#for-next Brave. What's going to happen to all those f_path.dentry uses where the filesystem thinks it's getting its own dentry? > git grep f_path.dentry | wc -l 171 Thanks, Miklos -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-unionfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
