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From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@google.com>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] Fix mounting with MS_I_VERSION
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2017 23:52:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171018225244.GO21978@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171018205626.25391-1-mjg59@google.com>

On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 01:56:26PM -0700, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> commit e462ec50cb5fa ("VFS: Differentiate mount flags (MS_*) from
> internal superblock flags") reworked the flags that are passed through
> do mount, and in the process dropped MS_I_VERSION. Confusingly, things
> continue working if the i_version mount option is used because that's
> directly passed to ext4 which interprets it, while iversion is turned
> into MS_I_VERSION and dropped on the floor. This breaks IMA and EVM and
> my heart. Pass SB_I_VERSION through, and update the consumers to use it
> instead of MS_I_VERSION.

Remaining bits applied on top of "vfs: fix mounting a filesystem with i_version".
And AFAICS Cc:stable is wrong - e462ec50cb5fa is not in 4.13...

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-10-18 22:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-10-18 20:56 [PATCH V2] Fix mounting with MS_I_VERSION Matthew Garrett
2017-10-18 21:43 ` David Howells
2017-10-18 22:52 ` Al Viro [this message]
2017-10-18 22:53   ` Matthew Garrett

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