linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH] fs: Add user_file_or_path

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Message-ID: <CA+55aFwtVH+MoG7Emt5V5wy2eDbYOBHBgOywRHFQ+Vm2XZn-Ag@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 27 Aug 2013 12:32:26 -0700
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
Cc:	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>, Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	"security@...nel.org" <security@...nel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	Linux FS Devel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Brad Spengler <spender@...ecurity.net>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] fs: Add user_file_or_path_at and use it for truncate

On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 12:16 PM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net> wrote:
> This is an experiment to see if we can get nice semantics for all syscalls
> that either follow symlinks or allow AT_EMPTY_PATH without jumping through
> enormous hoops.  This converts truncate (although you can't tell using
> truncate from coreutils, because it actually uses open + ftruncate).

So this seems *way* too complex. I'd much rather see "nd->flags" get a
LOOKUP_READONLY flag, for example, that gets set by
proc_pid_follow_link() when it hits a read-only file descriptor (and
gets cleared by other lookups).

Wouldn't that be *much* more straightforward?

             Linus
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