From: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk
To: Mike Waychison <michael.waychison@sun.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.5.72: follow_mount / follow_link
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 15:54:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030624145418.GP6754@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3EF86337.1020103@sun.com>
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 10:41:59AM -0400, Mike Waychison wrote:
> The changes made in fs/namei.c@1.42 break this behaviour iff the dentry
> being follow_link'ed is a root dentry. This is becauseo
... mixing symlinks and mounting is ripe with very ugly races and corner
cases. Not allowed - symlink can't be a mountpoint or a mounted object.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-06-24 14:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-06-24 14:41 [PATCH] 2.5.72: follow_mount / follow_link Mike Waychison
2003-06-24 14:54 ` viro [this message]
2003-06-24 15:42 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-06-24 23:50 ` jlnance
2003-06-25 0:00 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-06-25 0:07 ` H. Peter Anvin
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