Bug 24912 - I think this one fell through the cracks a bit

Bug 24912 - I think this one fell through the cracks a bit

[Steven Stewart-Gallus]

Hello,

I think that bug 2491 at
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24912 sort of fell through
the cracks and I'm not sure as many people are aware of it as there
could be. This bug is that one can't mount bind mounts readonly but
can only remount them readonly which is insufficient for recursive
bind mounts and certain kinds of sandboxing. Also the bind mount fails
silenty without giving an error which is never a good idea.

Re: Bug 24912 - I think this one fell through the cracks a bit

[Nick Krause]

On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 8:11 PM, Steven Stewart-Gallus
<sstewartgallus00@mylangara.bc.ca> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I think that bug 2491 at
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24912 sort of fell through
> the cracks and I'm not sure as many people are aware of it as there
> could be. This bug is that one can't mount bind mounts readonly but
> can only remount them readonly which is insufficient for recursive
> bind mounts and certain kinds of sandboxing. Also the bind mount fails
> silenty without giving an error which is never a good idea.
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Steven,
It's late now but I will look into this tomorrow and see if I can
trace the issue
and may be write a solution.
Cheers Nick