From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: j@falooley.org (Jason Lunz)
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, almesber@lrc.di.epfl.ch
Subject: Re: RFC: from FIBMAP to FIONDEV
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 18:16:36 +0100 (BST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E15AajU-0004wp-00@the-village.bc.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010614100354.A2129@orr.falooley.org> from "Jason Lunz" at Jun 14, 2001 10:03:54 AM
> I'm looking for a way to do FIBMAP on linux 2.4 without being root, and
> I learned from the archive that it's restricted for security reasons,
> and that it's obsolete anyway. I found this discussion about a
> replacement called FIONDEV:
FIBMAP can be handled per fs by auditing the code paths. First job would be
to push the security check into each fs, then audit the fs's and then change
them. But its really a 2.5 job since any third party fs might spontaneously
become insecure oitherwise
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2001-06-14 14:03 RFC: from FIBMAP to FIONDEV Jason Lunz
2001-06-14 17:16 ` Alan Cox [this message]
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