From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: x86@kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com,
hpa@zytor.com, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org,
rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com, pebolle@tiscali.nl,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: defconfig: Enable CONFIG_FHANDLE
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2014 07:54:30 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141130205430.GD16151@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1416958612-7448-1-git-send-email-richard@nod.at>
On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 12:36:52AM +0100, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> systemd has a hard dependency on CONFIG_FHANDLE.
> If you run systemd with CONFIG_FHANDLE=n it will somehow
> boot but fail to spawn a getty or other basic services.
> As systemd is now used by most x86 distributions it
> makes sense to enabled this by default and save kernel
> hackers a lot of value debugging time.
The bigger question to me is this: why does systemd need to
store/open by handle rather than just opening paths directly when
needed? This interface is intended for stable, pathless access to
inodes across unmount/mount contexts (e.g. userspace NFS servers,
filesystem backup programs, etc) so I'm curious as to the problem
systemd is solving using this interface. I just can't see the
problem being solved here, and why path based security checks on
every open() aren't necessary...
Cheers,
Dave.
--
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-30 20:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-25 23:36 [PATCH] x86: defconfig: Enable CONFIG_FHANDLE Richard Weinberger
2014-11-25 23:43 ` Dave Jones
2014-11-26 0:11 ` Richard Weinberger
2014-11-26 9:43 ` Paul Bolle
2014-11-25 23:51 ` Greg KH
2014-11-26 0:11 ` Richard Weinberger
2014-11-26 0:55 ` Greg KH
2014-11-26 8:13 ` Richard Weinberger
2014-11-26 9:30 ` Paul Bolle
2014-11-30 20:54 ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2014-11-30 21:08 ` Richard Weinberger
2014-12-01 0:18 ` Dave Chinner
2014-12-01 0:41 ` Richard Weinberger
2014-12-01 1:03 ` Lennart Poettering
2014-12-01 3:54 ` Dave Chinner
2014-12-01 12:42 ` Lennart Poettering
2014-12-09 10:18 ` [tip:x86/debug] x86/kconfig/defconfig: Enable CONFIG_FHANDLE=y tip-bot for Richard Weinberger
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