linux-kernel - Re: [RFC 0/28] Patches to pass vfsmount to LSM inode security hooks

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Message-ID: <20070206094709.GB5328@infradead.org>
Date:	Tue, 6 Feb 2007 09:47:09 +0000
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@...e.de>
Cc:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@....uio.no>,
	Tony Jones <tonyj@...e.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, chrisw@...s-sol.org,
	linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk
Subject: Re: [RFC 0/28] Patches to pass vfsmount to LSM inode security hooks

On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 07:20:35PM -0800, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> It's actually not hard to "fix", and nfsd would look a little less weird. But 
> what would this add, what do pathnames mean in the context of nfsd, and would 
> nfsd actually become less weird?

It's not actually a pathname we care about, but a vfsmount + dentry
combo.  That one means as much in nfsd as elsewhere.  We want nfsd
to obey r/o or noatime mount flags if /export/foo is exported with them
but /foo not.  Even better would be to change nfsd so it creates it's
own non-visible vfsmount for the filesystems it exports..

> But there is no way to tell different hardlinks to the same inode in the same 
> directory from each other (both the file and directory inode are the same), 
> and depending on the export options, we may or may not be able to distinguish 
> different hardlinks across directories.

This doesn't matter.  hardlinks are per definition on the same vfsmount.

> If the nohide or crossmnt export options are used, we might run into similar 
> aliasing issues with mounts (I'm not sure about this).

no, we won't.

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