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From: Hongbo Li <lihongbo22@huawei.com>
To: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: <tytso@mit.edu>, <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca>, <brauner@kernel.org>,
	<jack@suse.cz>, <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>,
	<linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>, <chris.zjh@huawei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] fs: ext4: support relative path for `journal_path` in mount option.
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2024 10:32:55 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <39fa2184-e5f4-4709-961c-292917e358e9@huawei.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240925020913.GH3550746@ZenIV>



On 2024/9/25 10:09, Al Viro wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 25, 2024 at 09:56:24AM +0800, Hongbo Li wrote:
>> @@ -156,6 +156,9 @@ int fs_lookup_param(struct fs_context *fc,
>>   		f = getname_kernel(param->string);
>>   		if (IS_ERR(f))
>>   			return PTR_ERR(f);
>> +		/* for relative path */
>> +		if (f->name[0] != '/')
>> +			param->dirfd = AT_FDCWD;
> 
> Will need to dig around for some context, but this bit definitely makes
> no sense - dirfd is completely ignored for absolute pathnames, so making
> that store conditional is pointless.
> 

Only do it for relative path. As mentioned in [1], if the "journal_path" 
is treated as FSCONFIG_SET_PATH may be better, but mount(8) is passing a 
string (which uses FSCONFIG_SET_STRING for "journal_path"). For the 
relative path case, the dirfd should be assigned.

[1] 
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240527-mahlen-packung-3fe035ab390d@brauner/

Thanks,
Hongbo

> 

  reply	other threads:[~2024-09-25  2:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-09-25  1:56 [PATCH v2] fs: ext4: support relative path for `journal_path` in mount option Hongbo Li
2024-09-25  2:09 ` Al Viro
2024-09-25  2:32   ` Hongbo Li [this message]
2024-09-25  7:51 ` Jan Kara
2024-09-25  8:01   ` Hongbo Li
2024-09-25  8:21   ` Christian Brauner
2024-09-25  8:24 ` Christian Brauner

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