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From: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com>
To: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>,
	Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>,
	akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, serue@us.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 20/20] honor r/w changes at do_remount() time
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 10:01:42 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060628150142.GA17543@sergelap.austin.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060628144104.GE5572@MAIL.13thfloor.at>

Quoting Herbert Poetzl (herbert@13thfloor.at):
> On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 06:19:35AM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 03:14:57PM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
> > > 
> > > Originally from: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
> > > 
> > > This is the core of the read-only bind mount patch set.
> > > 
> > > Note that this does _not_ add a "ro" option directly to
> > > the bind mount operation.  If you require such a mount,
> > > you must first do the bind, then follow it up with a
> > > 'mount -o remount,ro' operation.
> >  
> > I guess the fundamental problem I have with that approach is that it's
> > a cop-out - we just declare rw state of vfsmount independent from that
> > of filesystem and add a "if a flag is set, act upon vfsmount".
> 
> IMHO the read only check has to be done twice, i.e
> once for the superblock and a second time for the
> particular vfs mount, similar, the procfs mounts
> entry shows the combination (logical and) of the
> write ability ...

Shouldn't the vfsmount rw flag being set imply superblock rw?

-serge

  reply	other threads:[~2006-06-28 15:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-06-27 22:14 [PATCH 00/20] Mount writer count and read-only bind mounts (v3) Dave Hansen
2006-06-27 22:14 ` [PATCH 01/20] prepare for write access checks: collapse if() Dave Hansen
2006-06-27 22:14 ` [PATCH 02/20] r/o bind mount prepwork: move open_namei()'s vfs_create() Dave Hansen
2006-06-27 22:14 ` [PATCH 03/20] Add vfsmount writer count Dave Hansen
2006-06-27 22:14 ` [PATCH 04/20] elevate mnt writers for callers of vfs_mkdir() Dave Hansen
2006-06-27 22:14 ` [PATCH 06/20] sys_symlinkat() elevate write count around vfs_symlink() Dave Hansen
2006-06-27 22:14 ` [PATCH 05/20] elevate write count during entire ncp_ioctl() Dave Hansen
2006-06-27 22:14 ` [PATCH 07/20] elevate mount count for extended attributes Dave Hansen
2006-06-27 22:14 ` [PATCH 08/20] sys_linkat(): elevate write count around vfs_link() Dave Hansen
2006-06-27 22:14 ` [PATCH 09/20] mount_is_safe(): add comment Dave Hansen
2006-06-27 22:14 ` [PATCH 11/20] elevate write count over calls to vfs_rename() Dave Hansen
2006-06-27 22:14 ` [PATCH 10/20] unix_find_other() elevate write count for touch_atime() Dave Hansen
2006-06-27 22:14 ` [PATCH 12/20] tricky: elevate write count files are open()ed Dave Hansen
2006-06-27 22:14 ` [PATCH 13/20] elevate writer count for do_sys_truncate() Dave Hansen
2006-06-27 22:14 ` [PATCH 14/20] elevate write count for do_utimes() Dave Hansen
2006-06-27 22:14 ` [PATCH 16/20] sys_mknodat(): elevate write count for vfs_mknod/create() Dave Hansen
2006-06-27 22:14 ` [PATCH 15/20] elevate write count for do_sys_utime() and touch_atime() Dave Hansen
2006-06-27 22:14 ` [PATCH 17/20] elevate mnt writers for vfs_unlink() callers Dave Hansen
2006-06-27 22:14 ` [PATCH 18/20] do_rmdir(): elevate write count Dave Hansen
2006-06-27 22:14 ` [PATCH 19/20] elevate writer count for custom 'struct file' Dave Hansen
2006-06-28  2:40   ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-28  3:59     ` Dave Hansen
2006-06-27 22:14 ` [PATCH 20/20] honor r/w changes at do_remount() time Dave Hansen
2006-06-28  5:19   ` Al Viro
2006-06-28 14:41     ` Herbert Poetzl
2006-06-28 15:01       ` Serge E. Hallyn [this message]
2006-07-03 17:30     ` Dave Hansen
2006-07-03 17:48       ` Al Viro
2006-07-03 18:23         ` Joshua Hudson
2006-07-03 18:38           ` Al Viro
2006-06-28  1:38 ` [PATCH 00/20] Mount writer count and read-only bind mounts (v3) Andrew Morton
2006-06-28  1:50   ` Dave Hansen
2006-06-28  2:17     ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-28  2:24       ` Randy.Dunlap
2006-06-28  2:30         ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-28  8:42       ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-06-28  5:56     ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-06-28 14:52     ` Herbert Poetzl

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