From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Denis Arefev <arefev@swemel.ru>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
lvc-project@linuxtesting.org, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] block: Avoid mounting the bdev pseudo-filesystem in userspace
Date: Sun, 24 May 2026 23:07:18 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ahPnFlvUqq0JC2vy@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260521072857.5078-1-arefev@swemel.ru>
On Thu, May 21, 2026 at 10:28:56AM +0300, Denis Arefev wrote:
> The bdev pseudo-filesystem is an internal kernel filesystem with which
> userspace should not interfere. Unregister it so that userspace cannot
> even attempt to mount it.
>
> This fixes a bug [1] that occurs when attempting to access files,
> because the system call move_mount() uses pointers declared in the
> inode_operations structure, which for the bdev pseudo-filesystem
> are always equal to 0. `inode->i_op = &empty_iops;`
Looks good:
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-05-25 6:07 UTC|newest]
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2026-05-21 7:28 [PATCH] block: Avoid mounting the bdev pseudo-filesystem in userspace Denis Arefev
2026-05-25 6:07 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
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