Re: [PATCH] Making shares unaccessible at root level mountable (aka solving bsc#8950 ...again)

[Marcus Hoffmann <marcus.hoffmann-j/7cz5qe3tpn68oJJulU0Q@public.gmane.org>]

On 06/10/2016 05:16 PM, Aurélien Aptel wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Jun 2016 21:27:34 +0200 Marcus Hoffmann
> <marcus.hoffmann-j/7cz5qe3tpn68oJJulU0Q@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> Hey Aurélien,
>> with your script I can reproduce the bug locally now.
> 
> Good.
> 
>> I can mount the share (which is on a Windows 8.1 vm) with a Windows 7
>> PC with the restricted user account. (Even in hard mode.)
>> I can mount the share from Linux-cifs using the admin user but not the
>> restricted user.
> 
> I've moved some things around. All of the prefix path components are
> now checked for accessibility in cifs_do_mount(). This is more
> robust and it lets us set the CIFS_MOUNT_USE_PREFIX_PATH flag earlier.
> 
> I've updated the cifs_root_iget() to use the prefix path when necessary
> which should take care of the last case (hard mode).
> 
> Please test my latest patch (attached).
> 
I just wanted to ask what can be done to get this merged.

>> (I noticed though that no user has access to the file in the shared
>> dir. But this doesn't really matter for the test.)
> 
> Indeed.
> 

Marcus