Re: fanotify - overall design before I start sending patches

John Stoffel
2009-08-04T18:21:53Z

>>>>> "Valdis" == Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> writes:

Valdis> On Tue, 04 Aug 2009 12:27:48 EDT, Eric Paris said:
>> On Tue, 2009-08-04 at 17:09 +0100, Tvrtko Ursulin wrote:
>> > Would it make more sense to deny on timeouts and then evict? I am thinking it
>> > would be more secure with no significant drawbacks. Also for usages like HSM
>> > allowing it without data being in place might present wrong content to the
>> > user.
>>
>> I'd be willing to go that route as long as noone else complains.

Valdis> Yes, in my world, "deny on timeout and evict" is the better
Valdis> design decision. For an HSM, you'd rather have a
Valdis> quick-and-ugly death on a failed file open than an app
Valdis> accidentally reading the HSM's stub data thinking it's the
Valdis> original data.

Speaking as somone who is working slowly to deploy an HSM service, one
thing to note is that when you *do* see the stub file contents, you
know that your HSM is busted somehow.

How will fanotify deal with this issue? Sorry, I haven't paid enough
attention to this thread though I know I should since it's up my $WORK
alley.

John