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From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
To: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>,
	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com>, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>,
	kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk,
	jamie@shareable.org
Subject: Re: symlinks with permissions
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:57:49 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1256579869.8576.7.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091026174631.GD7233@duck.suse.cz>

On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 18:46 +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
>   That's what I'd think as well but it does not as I've just learned and
> tested :) proc_pid_follow_link actually directly gives a dentry of the
> target file without checking permissions on the way.
> 
> 								Honza

I seem to remember that is deliberate, the point being that a symlink
in /proc/*/fd/ may contain a path that refers to a private namespace.

Cheers
  Trond

  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-26 17:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-25  6:29 symlinks with permissions Pavel Machek
2009-10-26 16:31 ` Jan Kara
2009-10-26 16:57   ` Serge E. Hallyn
2009-10-26 17:36     ` J. Bruce Fields
2009-10-26 17:46       ` Jan Kara
2009-10-26 17:57         ` Trond Myklebust [this message]
2009-10-25  9:36           ` Pavel Machek
2009-10-26 18:22             ` Trond Myklebust
2009-10-27  8:11               ` Pavel Machek
2009-10-27 10:27                 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-10-26 18:35             ` J. Bruce Fields
2009-10-28  4:15             ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-10-28  8:16               ` Pavel Machek
2009-10-28 11:25                 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-10-28 21:03                   ` Pavel Machek
2009-10-29  2:20                     ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-10-29 11:03                       ` Pavel Machek
2009-10-29 16:23                         ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-10-30 18:35                           ` Pavel Machek
2009-10-30 20:37                             ` Nick Bowler
2009-10-30 23:03                             ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-10-31  2:30                               ` Jamie Lokier
2009-10-28 16:34                 ` Casey Schaufler
2009-10-28 19:44                   ` Jamie Lokier
2009-10-28 21:06                   ` Pavel Machek
2009-10-26 18:02         ` J. Bruce Fields
2009-10-26 17:57       ` Serge E. Hallyn

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