From: Christoph Hellwig <hch-wEGCiKHe2LqWVfeAwA7xHQ@public.gmane.org>
To: David Howells <dhowells-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
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Subject: Re: Extended file stat: Splitting file- and fs-specific info?
Date: Wed, 9 May 2012 07:19:58 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120509111958.GA11345@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170.1336555274-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 10:21:14AM +0100, David Howells wrote:
> Dave Chinner <david-FqsqvQoI3Ljby3iVrkZq2A@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
> > I don't think we want to expose the inode generation numbers. It is
> > trivial to construct NFS file handles (usually just fsid, inode
> > number and generation) with that information and hence bypass
> > security checks to access files.
>
> I was asked for it by Bernd Schubert for userspace NFS servers and FUSE -
> maybe he can say what he wants it for.
It's entirely broken, as a generation number might be part of the file
handle (and for Linux-like filesystems normally is), but it's entirely
up to the filesystem to decide how it works. That's why we added system
calls to do operations on opaque file handles that the file system
controls. Exposing a completely meaningless "generation" is a bad idea.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-09 11:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 85+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-19 14:05 [PATCH 0/6] Extended file stat system call David Howells
2012-04-19 14:06 ` [PATCH 3/6] xstat: AFS: Return extended attributes David Howells
2012-04-19 14:06 ` [PATCH 4/6] xstat: NFS: " David Howells
[not found] ` <20120419140653.17272.95035.stgit-S6HVgzuS8uM4Awkfq6JHfwNdhmdF6hFW@public.gmane.org>
2012-04-19 14:35 ` Myklebust, Trond
2012-04-26 13:52 ` David Howells
2012-04-19 14:07 ` [PATCH 5/6] xstat: CIFS: " David Howells
[not found] ` <20120419140706.17272.72290.stgit-S6HVgzuS8uM4Awkfq6JHfwNdhmdF6hFW@public.gmane.org>
2012-04-19 15:19 ` Steve French
[not found] ` <20120419140558.17272.74360.stgit-S6HVgzuS8uM4Awkfq6JHfwNdhmdF6hFW@public.gmane.org>
2012-04-19 14:06 ` [PATCH 1/6] xstat: Add a pair of system calls to make extended file stats available David Howells
2012-04-19 23:36 ` Andreas Dilger
[not found] ` <20120419140612.17272.57774.stgit-S6HVgzuS8uM4Awkfq6JHfwNdhmdF6hFW@public.gmane.org>
2012-04-24 21:29 ` J. Bruce Fields
[not found] ` <20120424212911.GA26073-uC3wQj2KruNg9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org>
2012-04-24 22:08 ` Steve French
2012-04-25 14:44 ` Andreas Dilger
2012-04-26 13:45 ` David Howells
[not found] ` <18765.1335447954-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2012-04-26 14:28 ` J. Bruce Fields
2012-04-26 17:06 ` Steve French
2012-04-26 13:32 ` David Howells
[not found] ` <18195.1335447156-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2012-04-27 0:51 ` Dave Chinner
2012-04-27 3:11 ` Andreas Dilger
2012-04-26 13:40 ` David Howells
[not found] ` <18533.1335447617-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2012-04-26 14:23 ` J. Bruce Fields
2012-04-19 14:06 ` [PATCH 2/6] xstat: Ext4: Return extended attributes David Howells
[not found] ` <20120419140625.17272.23303.stgit-S6HVgzuS8uM4Awkfq6JHfwNdhmdF6hFW@public.gmane.org>
2012-04-19 16:03 ` Steve French
2012-04-26 13:47 ` David Howells
2012-04-26 17:00 ` Steve French
2012-04-19 14:07 ` [PATCH 6/6] xstat: eCryptFS: " David Howells
2012-04-19 17:11 ` [PATCH 0/6] Extended file stat system call Steve French
2012-04-27 1:06 ` Dave Chinner
2012-04-27 3:22 ` Andreas Dilger
[not found] ` <ED5B8F1B-6C99-4516-85FA-A767E94B635F-m1MBpc4rdrD3fQ9qLvQP4Q@public.gmane.org>
2012-04-28 0:38 ` Dave Chinner
2012-04-28 0:54 ` Steve French
2012-05-08 20:19 ` Extended file stat: Splitting file- and fs-specific info? David Howells
2012-05-08 21:13 ` Myklebust, Trond
[not found] ` <16281.1336508382-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2012-05-09 0:24 ` Dave Chinner
2012-05-09 1:09 ` J. Bruce Fields
2012-05-09 4:25 ` Dave Chinner
2012-05-09 11:14 ` J. Bruce Fields
2012-05-09 1:16 ` Andreas Dilger
2012-05-10 9:23 ` David Howells
[not found] ` <14477.1336641794-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2012-05-10 16:05 ` Andreas Dilger
2012-05-10 17:10 ` Roland McGrath
2012-05-11 8:54 ` Andreas Dilger
2012-05-09 9:21 ` David Howells
[not found] ` <20170.1336555274-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2012-05-09 11:19 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
[not found] ` <20120509111958.GA11345-wEGCiKHe2LqWVfeAwA7xHQ@public.gmane.org>
2012-05-09 11:55 ` Bernd Schubert
[not found] ` <4FAA5B24.1020306-mPn0NPGs4xGatNDF+KUbs4QuADTiUCJX@public.gmane.org>
2012-05-09 12:05 ` Christoph Hellwig
[not found] ` <20120509120544.GA17535-wEGCiKHe2LqWVfeAwA7xHQ@public.gmane.org>
2012-05-09 12:25 ` Bernd Schubert
2012-05-09 13:51 ` Andreas Dilger
2012-05-09 14:12 ` Bernd Schubert
2012-05-10 9:14 ` David Howells
2012-04-19 16:32 ` [PATCH 0/6] Extended file stat system call Roland McGrath
2012-04-19 21:51 ` Paul Eggert
2012-04-19 23:05 ` Roland McGrath
2012-04-26 14:16 ` David Howells
[not found] ` <20173.1335449760-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2012-04-26 18:22 ` Roland McGrath
[not found] ` <4F9088D6.9020203-764C0pRuGfqVc3sceRu5cw@public.gmane.org>
2012-04-26 14:04 ` David Howells
[not found] ` <19638.1335449047-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2012-04-26 18:24 ` Roland McGrath
2012-04-19 23:29 ` Andreas Dilger
2012-04-26 13:54 ` David Howells
[not found] ` <19184.1335448455-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2012-04-26 18:25 ` Roland McGrath
2012-04-27 23:54 ` Paul Eggert
[not found] ` <20120426182524.E5ADF2C0EC-j1d2VQoJOwwHfwO+Tb3JRVaTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org>
2012-04-26 21:54 ` David Howells
[not found] ` <9931.1335477281-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2012-04-26 22:02 ` Roland McGrath
2012-04-26 22:21 ` Nix
2012-04-26 14:25 ` David Howells
2012-04-26 14:54 ` Steve French
[not found] ` <CAH2r5mv1Lijdwk5zsQwYJr4Etb6fhrRyNXm-iFCQX+HecboGrQ-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2012-04-26 15:25 ` Myklebust, Trond
2012-04-26 16:56 ` Steve French
[not found] ` <CAH2r5mt5af-_hxBRKK72iD5Gr99bo91ec78Rov8EGVEx8=21mA-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2012-04-26 17:00 ` Myklebust, Trond
2012-04-26 17:03 ` Steve French
[not found] ` <CAH2r5mvmCfLrxRHje6Wx5X84zxPEHwRMUJGsjvWBujMu7w841w-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2012-04-26 17:06 ` Myklebust, Trond
[not found] ` <1335460011.9701.30.camel-SyLVLa/KEI9HwK5hSS5vWB2eb7JE58TQ@public.gmane.org>
2012-04-26 17:09 ` Steve French
[not found] ` <CAH2r5muXk+frkFz9X523Ny=RMwJGeqOPH75G1ToNa5QoMo5SkQ-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2012-04-26 17:10 ` Steve French
2012-04-26 21:57 ` David Howells
[not found] ` <10104.1335477476-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2012-04-26 22:05 ` Roland McGrath
[not found] ` <20120426220552.D98D62C0D3-j1d2VQoJOwwHfwO+Tb3JRVaTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org>
2012-04-27 0:33 ` Myklebust, Trond
2012-04-27 0:30 ` Myklebust, Trond
2012-04-26 15:52 ` David Howells
2012-04-27 0:29 ` Andreas Dilger
[not found] ` <3F302713-B675-4BAA-B2B7-235E03C5975F-m1MBpc4rdrD3fQ9qLvQP4Q@public.gmane.org>
2012-04-27 9:19 ` David Howells
2012-04-27 9:39 ` David Howells
[not found] ` <4111.1335519545-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2012-04-27 13:13 ` Dave Chinner
2012-04-27 15:10 ` J. Bruce Fields
2012-04-27 19:31 ` Andreas Dilger
2012-04-28 0:58 ` Dave Chinner
2012-05-10 9:51 ` David Howells
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