linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH #3] reiserfs: Fix permissions on .reiserfs

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Date:	Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:39:27 -0400
From:	Matt McCutchen <matt@...tmccutchen.net>
To:	ReiserFS Mailing List <reiserfs-devel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:	Edward Shishkin <edward.shishkin@...il.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@...e.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH #3] reiserfs: Fix permissions on .reiserfs_priv

On Thu, 2010-04-08 at 23:38 +0200, Edward Shishkin wrote:
> Jeff Mahoney wrote:
> >  [...] This patch resolves the issue by properly hiding .reiserfs_priv. This
> >  was the intent of the xattr poisoning code, but it appears to have
> >  never worked as expected. This is fixed by using d_revalidate instead
> >  of d_compare. [...]

The patch seems to rely on the fact that the priv_root dentry is stuck
in the dcache for as long as the filesystem is mounted, so that attempts
to follow ".reiserfs_priv" are guaranteed to match that dentry in the
cache and be refused by xattr_hide_revalidate.  Is my understanding
correct?

-- 
Matt

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