From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Al Viro Subject: Re: [PATCH review 5/6] vfs: Test for and handle paths that are unreachable from their mnt_root Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2015 05:38:14 +0100 Message-ID: <20150810043814.GD14139@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> References: <871tncuaf6.fsf@x220.int.ebiederm.org> <87mw5xq7lt.fsf@x220.int.ebiederm.org> <87a8yqou41.fsf_-_@x220.int.ebiederm.org> <874moq9oyb.fsf_-_@x220.int.ebiederm.org> <871tfkawu9.fsf_-_@x220.int.ebiederm.org> <878u9s9i1d.fsf_-_@x220.int.ebiederm.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Andrey Vagin , Miklos Szeredi , Richard Weinberger , Linux Containers , Andy Lutomirski , "J. Bruce Fields" , linux-fsdevel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, Jann Horn , Linus Torvalds , Willy Tarreau To: "Eric W. Biederman" Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <878u9s9i1d.fsf_-_-JOvCrm2gF+uungPnsOpG7nhyD016LWXt@public.gmane.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: containers-bounces-cunTk1MwBs9QetFLy7KEm3xJsTq8ys+cHZ5vskTnxNA@public.gmane.org Errors-To: containers-bounces-cunTk1MwBs9QetFLy7KEm3xJsTq8ys+cHZ5vskTnxNA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Mon, Aug 03, 2015 at 04:30:22PM -0500, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > + if (!is_subdir(nd->path.dentry, mnt->mnt_root)) > + return false; Umm... What's to protect us from racing with d_move() right here?