From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Pavel Shilovsky <piastry@etersoft.ru>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-api@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Shared flags
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 03:37:12 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081114033712.GL2055@shareable.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081113092554.GA3004@infradead.org>
Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 01:08:58PM +0300, Pavel Shilovsky wrote:
> > We suggest to switch on this flags with special options during mounting.
> > By default, it'll be switch off.
> > This solution deletes possibility of such situations, like in example.
>
> Sorry, having completely weird open modes only for one filesystem, and
> only depending on mount options is not very nice to the user.
>
> And options or not allowing the above functionality for regular users
> is a security issue.
A generic mount option is currently used for mandatory locking - this
is very similar.
The only different I see, for security, is with mandatory locking a
process which doesn't want to get stuck can check the permission bits
before opening a file. But I'm not aware of anything actually doing this.
-- Jamie
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-14 3:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <49183DF9.9010003@etersoft.ru>
[not found] ` <49183DF9.9010003-7qunaywFIewox3rIn2DAYQ@public.gmane.org>
2008-11-11 8:52 ` [PATCH 0/2] Shared flags Christoph Hellwig
2008-11-11 10:09 ` Jamie Lokier
2008-11-11 11:14 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-11-13 10:08 ` Pavel Shilovsky
[not found] ` <491BFCBA.80208-7qunaywFIewox3rIn2DAYQ@public.gmane.org>
2008-11-13 9:25 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-11-14 3:37 ` Jamie Lokier [this message]
2008-11-15 11:39 ` Christoph Hellwig
[not found] ` <20081115113938.GA26576-wEGCiKHe2LqWVfeAwA7xHQ@public.gmane.org>
2008-11-16 5:57 ` Pavel Shilovsky
[not found] ` <20081113092554.GA3004-wEGCiKHe2LqWVfeAwA7xHQ@public.gmane.org>
2008-11-16 10:37 ` Benny Halevy
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