Re: [PATCH 00/17] VFS: Filesystem information and notifications [ver #17]

Miklos Szeredi
2020-03-03T11:34:03Z

On Tue, Mar 3, 2020 at 11:25 AM Christian Brauner
<christian.brauner@ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Mar 03, 2020 at 11:13:50AM +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 3, 2020 at 11:00 AM Christian Brauner
> > <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com> wrote:

> > > More magic links to beam you around sounds like a bad idea. We had a
> > > bunch of CVEs around them in containers and they were one of the major
> > > reasons behind us pushing for openat2(). That's why it has a
> > > RESOLVE_NO_MAGICLINKS flag.
> >
> > No, that link wouldn't beam you around at all, it would end up in an
> > internally mounted instance of a mountfs, a safe place where no
>
> Even if it is a magic link to a safe place it's a magic link. They
> aren't a great solution to this problem. fsinfo() is cleaner and
> simpler as it creates a context for a supervised mount which gives the a
> managing application fine-grained control and makes it easily
> extendable.

Yeah, it's a nice and clean interface in the ioctl(2) sense. Sure,
fsinfo() is way better than ioctl(), but it at the core it's still the
same syscall multiplexer, do everything hack.

> Also, we're apparently at the point where it seems were suggesting
> another (pseudo)filesystem to get information about filesystems.

Implementation detail. Why would you care?

Thanks,
Miklos