Re: [patch 01/15] security: pass path to inode_create

Christoph Hellwig
2008-06-02T10:42:33Z

On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 11:52:52AM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> These patches fix several issues raised at previous submissions:
>
> - passing NULL vfsmounts
> - using nameidata
> - using extra stack for vfsmount argument
>
> So, it seems to me that there's in fact no issues remaining and the
> best excuse you can come up with is that it's a dumb idea. Well,
> that's not a very imressive technical argument IMNSHO.

Well, pathname based access control is a dumb idea, and we've been
through this N times. You've also been told that vfs_ routines should
remain without vfsmount, and no that's not a stack-related issue no idea
where that part came from.