linux-kernel - Re: [NFS] [PATCH 000 of 2] knfsd: Don't allow bad file handles to cause extX to go readonly

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Date:	Fri, 28 Jul 2006 14:33:21 +0100
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	NeilBrown <neilb@...e.de>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, nfs@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [NFS] [PATCH 000 of 2] knfsd: Don't allow bad file handles to cause extX to go readonly

On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 10:31:20AM +1000, NeilBrown wrote:
> Currently, and file handle with a bad inode number in it can cause
> ext2 to go to readonly (as it looks like a corrupted filesystem)
> and could allow remote access to ext3 special files like the journal.
> 
> These patches give ext2/3 their own get_dentry method which checks the
> inode number early before other bits of the code can be freaked out by
> it.
> 
> These are revised versions of earlier patches.  Rather than exporting
> export_iget, we open code it and simplify it slightly.  This avoids
> and extra module dependancy.

This looks much better, agreed.  Long-term we should switch ext2/ext2
to use iget_locked so we can propagate errors in finding the inode much
better.

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