From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
To: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>,
Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>,
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
Yu-li Lin <yulilin@google.com>,
Chirantan Ekbote <chirantan@chromium.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 8/9] vfs: open inside ->tmpfile()
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2022 20:52:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Yytrfp9VnumXZDGU@ZenIV> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220921150750.grruzm3copwproyu@wittgenstein>
On Wed, Sep 21, 2022 at 05:07:50PM +0200, Christian Brauner wrote:
> > I don't think file_dentry() should be used for this.
> >
> > file_dentry() is basically a hack for overlayfs's "fake path" thing.
> > It should only be used where strictly necessary. At one point it
> > would be good to look again at cleaning this mess up.
>
> Yeah, that's what I was getting at. The file_dentry() helper would
> ideally just be as simple as file_inode() and then we'd have
> file_dentry_real() for the stacking filesystem scenarios.
I would rather minimize the number of places where we access
file->f_path.dentry in the first place. Any of those is asking for
confusion and overlayfs-triggered bugs.
A helper for that would invite bugs where it gets used in
places of file_dentry() and vice versa; sure, the same bugs are
possible for open-coded variants (and we had such bugs), but I would
rather have fewer places doing that to start with (don't get me
started on the debugfs design. Please.)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-09-21 19:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-09-20 19:36 [PATCH v3 0/9] fuse tmpfile Miklos Szeredi
2022-09-20 19:36 ` [PATCH v3 1/9] cachefiles: tmpfile error handling cleanup Miklos Szeredi
2022-09-20 19:36 ` [PATCH v3 2/9] hugetlbfs: cleanup mknod and tmpfile Miklos Szeredi
2022-09-21 7:59 ` Christian Brauner
2022-09-20 19:36 ` [PATCH v3 3/9] vfs: add tmpfile_open() helper Miklos Szeredi
2022-09-21 8:09 ` Christian Brauner
2022-09-21 14:33 ` Miklos Szeredi
2022-09-20 19:36 ` [PATCH v3 4/9] cachefiles: use " Miklos Szeredi
2022-09-21 8:26 ` Christian Brauner
2022-09-21 14:44 ` Miklos Szeredi
2022-09-21 19:46 ` Al Viro
2022-09-22 8:04 ` Christian Brauner
2022-09-20 19:36 ` [PATCH v3 5/9] ovl: " Miklos Szeredi
2022-09-21 8:35 ` Christian Brauner
2022-09-20 19:36 ` [PATCH v3 6/9] vfs: make vfs_tmpfile() static Miklos Szeredi
2022-09-21 8:36 ` Christian Brauner
2022-09-20 19:36 ` [PATCH v3 7/9] vfs: move open right after ->tmpfile() Miklos Szeredi
2022-09-20 20:57 ` Al Viro
2022-09-21 3:06 ` Miklos Szeredi
2022-09-21 8:54 ` Christian Brauner
2022-09-21 14:53 ` Miklos Szeredi
2022-09-21 19:55 ` Al Viro
2022-09-21 9:03 ` Christian Brauner
2022-09-21 14:56 ` Miklos Szeredi
2022-09-21 15:09 ` Christian Brauner
2022-09-21 15:24 ` Miklos Szeredi
2022-09-20 19:36 ` [PATCH v3 8/9] vfs: open inside ->tmpfile() Miklos Szeredi
2022-09-21 9:08 ` Christian Brauner
2022-09-21 14:58 ` Miklos Szeredi
2022-09-21 15:07 ` Christian Brauner
2022-09-21 15:27 ` Miklos Szeredi
2022-09-21 15:36 ` Christian Brauner
2022-09-21 19:52 ` Al Viro [this message]
2022-09-20 19:36 ` [PATCH v3 9/9] fuse: implement ->tmpfile() Miklos Szeredi
2022-09-21 9:15 ` Christian Brauner
2022-09-21 15:00 ` Miklos Szeredi
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