From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Andrew Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Linux API <linux-api@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>, Tycho Andersen <tycho@tycho.ws>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 24/32] vfs: syscall: Add fsopen() to prepare for superblock creation [ver #9]
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2018 16:40:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <26576.1531496428@warthog.procyon.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F80F34FD-CFD3-4A53-AECC-AEC8D9EF3EAE@amacapital.net>
Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> wrote:
> > Whilst I'm at it, do we want the option of doing the equivalent of
> > mountat()? I.e. offering the option to open all the device files used by
> > a superblock with dfd and AT_* flags in combination with the filename?
> >
>
> Isn't that more or less what I was suggesting?
Yes, you suggested that. I'm asking if we actually need that.
> ... I also suggested just an fd and letting the caller open the file itself.
I'm not entirely sure, but that might prevent the filesystem from being able
to use it, since userspace might then prevent the filesystem getting exclusive
holdership.
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-07-13 15:40 UTC|newest]
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[not found] <153126248868.14533.9751473662727327569.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk>
2018-07-10 22:41 ` [PATCH 01/32] vfs: syscall: Add open_tree(2) to reference or clone a mount [ver #9] David Howells
2018-07-10 22:41 ` [PATCH 02/32] vfs: syscall: Add move_mount(2) to move mounts around " David Howells
2018-07-10 22:44 ` [PATCH 24/32] vfs: syscall: Add fsopen() to prepare for superblock creation " David Howells
2018-07-10 23:59 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-07-11 1:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-07-11 1:15 ` Al Viro
2018-07-11 1:33 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-07-11 1:48 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-07-11 8:43 ` David Howells
2018-07-11 1:14 ` Jann Horn
2018-07-11 1:16 ` Al Viro
2018-07-11 8:42 ` David Howells
2018-07-11 16:03 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-07-11 7:22 ` David Howells
2018-07-11 16:38 ` Eric Biggers
2018-07-11 17:06 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-07-12 14:54 ` David Howells
2018-07-12 15:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-07-12 16:00 ` Al Viro
2018-07-12 16:07 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-07-12 16:31 ` Al Viro
2018-07-12 16:39 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-07-12 17:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-07-12 17:44 ` Al Viro
2018-07-12 17:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-07-12 17:52 ` Al Viro
2018-07-12 16:23 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-07-12 16:31 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-07-12 16:41 ` Al Viro
2018-07-12 16:58 ` Al Viro
2018-07-12 17:54 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-07-12 20:23 ` David Howells
2018-07-12 20:25 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-07-12 20:34 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-07-12 20:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-07-12 21:26 ` David Howells
2018-07-12 21:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-07-12 22:32 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-07-12 22:54 ` David Howells
2018-07-12 23:21 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-07-12 23:23 ` Jann Horn
2018-07-12 23:33 ` Jann Horn
2018-07-12 23:35 ` David Howells
2018-07-12 23:50 ` Andy Lutomirski
[not found] ` <23894.1531438559@warthog.procyon.o rg.uk>
2018-07-13 0:03 ` David Howells
2018-07-13 0:24 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-07-13 7:30 ` David Howells
2018-07-19 1:30 ` Eric W. Biederman
2018-07-13 2:35 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-07-12 21:00 ` David Howells
2018-07-12 21:29 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-07-13 13:27 ` David Howells
2018-07-13 15:01 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-07-13 15:40 ` David Howells [this message]
2018-07-13 17:14 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-07-17 9:40 ` David Howells
2018-07-11 15:51 ` Jonathan Corbet
2018-07-11 16:18 ` David Howells
2018-07-12 17:15 ` Greg KH
2018-07-12 17:20 ` Al Viro
2018-07-12 18:03 ` Greg KH
2018-07-12 18:30 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-07-12 18:34 ` Al Viro
2018-07-12 18:35 ` Al Viro
2018-07-12 19:08 ` Greg KH
2018-07-10 22:44 ` [PATCH 25/32] vfs: syscall: Add fsmount() to create a mount for a superblock " David Howells
2018-07-10 22:44 ` [PATCH 26/32] vfs: syscall: Add fspick() to select a superblock for reconfiguration " David Howells
2018-07-10 22:44 ` [PATCH 31/32] vfs: syscall: Add fsinfo() to query filesystem information " David Howells
2018-07-10 22:52 ` [MANPAGE PATCH] Add manpages for move_mount(2) and open_tree(2) David Howells
2019-10-09 9:51 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2018-07-10 22:54 ` [MANPAGE PATCH] Add manpage for fsopen(2), fspick(2) and fsmount(2) David Howells
2019-10-09 9:52 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2018-07-10 22:55 ` [MANPAGE PATCH] Add manpage for fsinfo(2) David Howells
2019-10-09 9:52 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2019-10-09 12:02 ` David Howells
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