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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, Ondrej Mosnacek <omosnace@redhat.com>,
	Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>,
	Anna Schumaker <anna@kernel.org>,
	Scott Mayhew <smayhew@redhat.com>,
	Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>,
	Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>,
	linux-nfs <linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org>,
	SElinux list <selinux@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Security Module list 
	<linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux FS Devel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	dwysocha@redhat.com,
	Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] nfs: Fix automount superblock LSM init problem, preventing sb sharing
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2022 14:14:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2026286.1660828477@warthog.procyon.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHC9VhTpqvFbjKG5FMKGRBRHavOUrsCSFgayh+BNgSrry8bWLg@mail.gmail.com>

Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com> wrote:

> I guess my question is this: for inodes inside the superblock, does
> their superblock pointer point to the submount's superblock, or the
> parent filesystem's superblock?

They have to point to the submount superblock.  Too many things would break, I
think, if inode->i_sb pointed to the wrong place.  As far as the VFS is
concerned, apart from the way it is mounted, it's a perfectly normal
superblock.

David


  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-08-18 13:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-08-05 13:36 [PATCH v3] nfs: Fix automount superblock LSM init problem, preventing sb sharing David Howells
2022-08-08 17:04 ` Jeff Layton
2022-08-11 12:28 ` Ondrej Mosnacek
2022-08-16  3:25   ` Paul Moore
2022-08-18 13:14   ` David Howells [this message]
2022-08-19  2:07     ` Paul Moore

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