From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: hch@infradead.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 5/5] VFS: allow filesystem to override mknod capability checks
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 14:14:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070921131409.GA9988@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1IYiH4-0001eQ-00@dorka.pomaz.szeredi.hu>
On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 03:10:26PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> Take this example: I've loopback mounted an UML disk image using fuse
> (no privileges required), and want to create some device nodes. I
> can't yet boot the UML because the device node is missing from the
> image. So what should I do. Currently I have to manipulate the
> mounted image as root. But that's really shouldn't be needed.
That's something that shouldn't be solved in the filesystem, but rather
through exact semantics of unprivilegued mounts. Given that an
unprivilegued implies ignoring the device files we can easily allow
users to create them, because they're nothing special anymore.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-21 13:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-21 12:23 [patch 0/5] VFS changes Miklos Szeredi
2007-09-21 12:23 ` [patch 1/5] VFS: pass open file to ->setattr() Miklos Szeredi
2007-09-21 12:23 ` [patch 2/5] VFS: pass open file to ->getattr() Miklos Szeredi
2007-09-21 18:37 ` Andreas Dilger
2007-09-21 21:07 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-09-21 12:23 ` [patch 3/5] VFS: pass open file to ->xattr() Miklos Szeredi
2007-09-21 12:43 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-09-21 13:00 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-09-21 13:06 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-09-21 13:16 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-09-21 14:32 ` Trond Myklebust
2007-09-21 14:34 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-09-21 14:59 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-09-21 18:44 ` Andreas Dilger
2007-09-21 21:15 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-09-21 14:43 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-09-21 18:39 ` Andreas Dilger
2007-09-21 12:23 ` [patch 4/5] VFS: allow filesystems to implement atomic open+truncate Miklos Szeredi
2007-09-21 12:44 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-09-21 13:01 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-09-21 18:47 ` Andreas Dilger
2007-09-21 12:23 ` [patch 5/5] VFS: allow filesystem to override mknod capability checks Miklos Szeredi
2007-09-21 12:45 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-09-21 13:10 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-09-21 13:14 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2007-09-21 13:18 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-09-21 14:33 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-09-21 14:48 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-09-21 14:53 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-09-21 15:11 ` Miklos Szeredi
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