From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, serue@us.ibm.com,
viro@ftp.linux.org.uk, linuxram@us.ibm.com,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
containers@lists.osdl.org
Subject: Re: [patch 02/10] allow unprivileged umount
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:58:10 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070416195810.GB16255@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1vefwjehk.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>
On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 01:39:19PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> writes:
>
> > From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
> >
> > The owner doesn't need sysadmin capabilities to call umount().
> >
> > Similar behavior as umount(8) on mounts having "user=UID" option in
> > /etc/mtab. The difference is that umount also checks /etc/fstab,
> > presumably to exclude another mount on the same mountpoint.
> >
>
> bool in the kernel?
It's there already...
> int would be much more recognizable as this is not C++
>
> Or do you have place to convert the rest of the kernel that is using
> int to return a true/false value to bool?
It's already underway:
$ git log | grep bool | wc -l
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-16 20:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-16 11:03 [patch 00/10] mount ownership and unprivileged mount syscall (v3) Miklos Szeredi
2007-04-16 11:03 ` [patch 01/10] add user mounts to the kernel Miklos Szeredi
2007-04-16 11:03 ` [patch 02/10] allow unprivileged umount Miklos Szeredi
2007-04-16 19:39 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-16 19:58 ` Greg KH [this message]
2007-04-16 11:03 ` [patch 03/10] account user mounts Miklos Szeredi
2007-04-16 11:03 ` [patch 04/10] allow per-mount flags to be set/cleared individually Miklos Szeredi
2007-04-16 11:03 ` [patch 05/10] Add "permit user submounts" flag to vfsmount Miklos Szeredi
2007-04-16 19:20 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2007-04-17 10:44 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-04-17 14:33 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2007-04-17 16:08 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-04-17 16:54 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2007-04-16 11:03 ` [patch 06/10] propagate error values from clone_mnt Miklos Szeredi
2007-04-16 11:03 ` [patch 07/10] allow unprivileged bind mounts Miklos Szeredi
2007-04-16 11:03 ` [patch 08/10] put declaration of put_filesystem() in fs.h Miklos Szeredi
2007-04-16 11:03 ` [patch 09/10] allow unprivileged mounts Miklos Szeredi
2007-04-16 11:03 ` [patch 10/10] allow unprivileged fuse mounts Miklos Szeredi
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-04-12 16:45 [patch 00/10] (resend) mount ownership and unprivileged mount syscall Miklos Szeredi
2007-04-12 16:45 ` [patch 02/10] allow unprivileged umount Miklos Szeredi
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