From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: d_path() and overlay fs
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2015 13:31:18 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150320133118.GW29656@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150320132914.GA1749@ws.net.home>
On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 02:29:14PM +0100, Karel Zak wrote:
> It seems like serious problem because kernel uses d_path() (and
> friends) on many places to generate path strings for userspace in
> /proc and /sys and people already use overlay fs in containers.
It's not d_path(), it's file->f_path being wrong to start with. Same
problem as what dhowells is fighting wrt LSM shite.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-03-20 13:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-20 13:29 d_path() and overlay fs Karel Zak
2015-03-20 13:31 ` Al Viro [this message]
2015-03-20 13:41 ` Josh Boyer
2015-03-20 16:01 ` Miklos Szeredi
2015-03-20 16:25 ` Al Viro
2015-03-20 16:53 ` Miklos Szeredi
2015-03-20 18:16 ` Miklos Szeredi
2016-01-06 5:26 ` sangeetha Busangari
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