From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-afs@lists.infradead.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-api@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 30/32] vfs: Allow cloning of a mount tree with open(O_PATH|O_CLONE_MOUNT) [ver #8]
Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2018 07:39:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180601063928.GS30522@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180601062654.GA32397@infradead.org>
On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 11:26:54PM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 01:08:38AM +0100, David Howells wrote:
> > Make it possible to clone a mount tree with a new pair of open flags that
> > are used in conjunction with O_PATH:
> >
> > (1) O_CLONE_MOUNT - Clone the mount or mount tree at the path.
> >
> > (2) O_NON_RECURSIVE - Don't clone recursively.
>
> Err. I don't think we should use up two O_* flags for something
> only useful for your new mount API. Don't we have a better place
> to for these flags?
>
> Instead of overloading this on open having a specific syscalls just
> seems like a much saner idea.
It's not just mount API; these can be used independently of that.
Think of the uses where you pass those to ...at() and you'll see
a bunch of applications of that thing.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-06-01 6:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 87+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-05-25 0:05 [PATCH 00/32] VFS: Introduce filesystem context [ver #8] David Howells
2018-05-25 0:05 ` [PATCH 01/32] VFS: Suppress MS_* flag defs within the kernel unless explicitly enabled " David Howells
2018-05-25 0:05 ` [PATCH 02/32] vfs: Provide documentation for new mount API " David Howells
2018-05-25 0:05 ` [PATCH 03/32] VFS: Introduce the basic header for the new mount API's filesystem context " David Howells
2018-05-31 23:11 ` Al Viro
2018-05-31 23:13 ` Al Viro
2018-05-25 0:05 ` [PATCH 04/32] VFS: Add LSM hooks for the new mount API " David Howells
2018-05-25 0:05 ` [PATCH 05/32] selinux: Implement the new mount API LSM hooks " David Howells
2018-05-25 0:06 ` [PATCH 06/32] smack: Implement filesystem context security " David Howells
2018-05-25 0:06 ` [PATCH 07/32] apparmor: Implement security hooks for the new mount API " David Howells
2018-05-25 0:06 ` [PATCH 08/32] tomoyo: " David Howells
2018-05-25 0:06 ` [PATCH 09/32] VFS: Require specification of size of mount data for internal mounts " David Howells
2018-05-25 0:06 ` [PATCH 10/32] VFS: Implement a filesystem superblock creation/configuration context " David Howells
2018-06-07 19:50 ` Miklos Szeredi
2018-07-03 18:33 ` Eric Biggers
2018-07-03 21:53 ` David Howells
2018-07-03 21:58 ` Al Viro
2018-07-03 22:06 ` David Howells
2018-05-25 0:06 ` [PATCH 11/32] VFS: Remove unused code after filesystem context changes " David Howells
2018-05-25 0:06 ` [PATCH 12/32] procfs: Move proc_fill_super() to fs/proc/root.c " David Howells
2018-05-25 0:06 ` [PATCH 13/32] proc: Add fs_context support to procfs " David Howells
2018-05-25 0:06 ` [PATCH 14/32] ipc: Convert mqueue fs to fs_context " David Howells
2018-05-25 0:07 ` [PATCH 15/32] cpuset: Use " David Howells
2018-05-25 0:07 ` [PATCH 16/32] kernfs, sysfs, cgroup, intel_rdt: Support " David Howells
2018-06-21 18:47 ` [16/32] " Andrei Vagin
2018-06-22 12:52 ` David Howells
2018-06-22 15:30 ` Andrei Vagin
2018-06-22 16:57 ` Andrei Vagin
2018-06-23 23:34 ` David Howells
2018-05-25 0:07 ` [PATCH 17/32] hugetlbfs: Convert to " David Howells
2018-05-25 0:07 ` [PATCH 18/32] VFS: Remove kern_mount_data() " David Howells
2018-05-25 0:07 ` [PATCH 19/32] VFS: Implement fsopen() to prepare for a mount " David Howells
2018-05-31 21:25 ` Al Viro
2018-05-25 0:07 ` [PATCH 20/32] vfs: Make close() unmount the attached mount if so flagged " David Howells
2018-05-31 19:19 ` Al Viro
2018-05-31 19:26 ` Al Viro
2018-06-01 1:52 ` Al Viro
2018-06-01 3:18 ` Al Viro
2018-06-01 5:16 ` Al Viro
2018-05-25 0:07 ` [PATCH 21/32] VFS: Implement fsmount() to effect a pre-configured mount " David Howells
2018-06-04 15:05 ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-06-04 15:24 ` David Howells
2018-05-25 0:07 ` [PATCH 22/32] vfs: Provide an fspick() system call " David Howells
2018-05-25 0:07 ` [PATCH 23/32] VFS: Implement logging through fs_context " David Howells
2018-05-25 1:48 ` Joe Perches
2018-05-25 0:07 ` [PATCH 24/32] vfs: Add some logging to the core users of the fs_context log " David Howells
2018-05-25 0:08 ` [PATCH 25/32] afs: Add fs_context support " David Howells
2018-05-25 0:08 ` [PATCH 26/32] afs: Use fs_context to pass parameters over automount " David Howells
2018-06-07 1:58 ` Goldwyn Rodrigues
2018-06-07 20:45 ` David Howells
2018-05-25 0:08 ` [PATCH 27/32] vfs: Use a 'struct fd_cookie *' type for light fd handling " David Howells
2018-05-25 0:08 ` [PATCH 28/32] vfs: Store the fd_cookie in nameidata, not the dfd int " David Howells
2018-05-25 0:08 ` [PATCH 29/32] vfs: Don't mix FMODE_* flags with O_* flags " David Howells
2018-05-25 0:08 ` [PATCH 30/32] vfs: Allow cloning of a mount tree with open(O_PATH|O_CLONE_MOUNT) " David Howells
2018-06-01 6:26 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-06-01 6:39 ` Al Viro [this message]
2018-06-01 8:27 ` David Howells
2018-06-02 3:09 ` Al Viro
2018-06-02 3:42 ` Al Viro
2018-06-02 4:04 ` Al Viro
2018-06-02 15:45 ` David Howells
2018-06-02 17:49 ` Al Viro
2018-06-03 0:55 ` [PATCH][RFC] open_tree(2) (was Re: [PATCH 30/32] vfs: Allow cloning of a mount tree with open(O_PATH|O_CLONE_MOUNT) [ver #8]) Al Viro
2018-06-04 10:34 ` Miklos Szeredi
2018-06-04 15:52 ` Al Viro
2018-06-04 15:59 ` Al Viro
2018-06-04 19:27 ` Miklos Szeredi
2018-06-04 15:27 ` David Howells
2018-06-04 17:16 ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-06-04 17:35 ` Al Viro
2018-06-04 19:38 ` Miklos Szeredi
2018-06-01 8:02 ` [PATCH 30/32] vfs: Allow cloning of a mount tree with open(O_PATH|O_CLONE_MOUNT) [ver #8] Amir Goldstein
2018-06-01 8:42 ` David Howells
2018-05-25 0:08 ` [PATCH 31/32] [RFC] fs: Add a move_mount() system call " David Howells
2018-05-31 21:20 ` Al Viro
2018-05-25 0:08 ` [PATCH 32/32] [RFC] fsinfo: Add a system call to allow querying of filesystem information " David Howells
2018-06-04 13:10 ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-06-04 15:01 ` David Howells
2018-06-04 16:00 ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-06-04 19:03 ` David Howells
2018-06-04 20:45 ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-05-31 20:56 ` Test program for move_mount() David Howells
2018-05-31 20:57 ` fsinfo test program David Howells
2018-06-15 4:18 ` [PATCH 00/32] VFS: Introduce filesystem context [ver #8] Eric W. Biederman
2018-06-18 20:30 ` David Howells
2018-06-18 21:33 ` Eric W. Biederman
2018-06-18 23:33 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
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