From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030346AbXDUH47 (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Apr 2007 03:56:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030367AbXDUH46 (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Apr 2007 03:56:58 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([65.172.181.25]:46510 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030258AbXDUH4q (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Apr 2007 03:56:46 -0400 Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 00:55:13 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Miklos Szeredi Cc: serue@us.ibm.com, viro@ftp.linux.org.uk, linuxram@us.ibm.com, ebiederm@xmission.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, containers@lists.osdl.org Subject: Re: [patch 7/8] allow unprivileged mounts Message-Id: <20070421005513.e230aa88.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20070420102652.075606533@szeredi.hu> References: <20070420102532.385211890@szeredi.hu> <20070420102652.075606533@szeredi.hu> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.7 (GTK+ 2.8.17; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 12:25:39 +0200 Miklos Szeredi wrote: > Define a new fs flag FS_SAFE, which denotes, that unprivileged > mounting of this filesystem may not constitute a security problem. > > Since most filesystems haven't been designed with unprivileged > mounting in mind, a thorough audit is needed before setting this flag. Practically speaking, is there any realistic likelihood that any filesystem apart from FUSE will ever use this?