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From: Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@cyphar.com>
To: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>,
	"Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org, libc-alpha@sourceware.org,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>
Subject: Re: XFS reports lchmod failure, but changes file system contents
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2020 16:21:42 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200221052142.qfvpuga7r6u6p474@yavin.dot.cyphar.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200221050205.GW23230@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>

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On 2020-02-21, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 03:09:19PM +1100, Aleksa Sarai wrote:
> >  * open(/proc/self/fd/$n) failing with ELOOP might actually be a bug
> >    (the error is coming from may_open as though the lookup was done with
> >    O_NOFOLLOW) -- the nd_jump_link() jump takes the namei lookup to a
> >    the symlink but it looks like the normal link_path_walk et al
> >    handling doesn't actually try to continue resolving it. I'll look
> >    into this a bit more.
> 
> Not a bug.  Neither mount nor symlink traversal applies to destinations
> of pure jumps (be it a symlink to "/" or a procfs symlink).  Both are
> deliberate and both for very good reasons.  We'd discussed that last
> year (and I'm going to cover that on LSF); basically, there's no
> good semantics for symlink traversal in such situation.

Fair enough, I figured there might be a deeper reason I was missing. ;)

> Again, this is absolutely deliberate.  And for sanity sake, don't bother
> with link_path_walk() et.al. state in mainline - see #work.namei or
> #work.do_last in vfs.git; I'm going to repost that series tonight or
> tomorrow.  The logics is easier to follow there.

Yeah, will do. I took a quick look when you posted it originally and I
agree it does seem more reasonable, I'll read through it in more depth
once you resend it.

-- 
Aleksa Sarai
Senior Software Engineer (Containers)
SUSE Linux GmbH
<https://www.cyphar.com/>

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-02-21  5:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-12 11:48 XFS reports lchmod failure, but changes file system contents Florian Weimer
2020-02-12 12:15 ` Florian Weimer
2020-02-12 16:16 ` Darrick J. Wong
2020-02-12 18:11   ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-02-12 18:37     ` Darrick J. Wong
2020-02-12 19:15       ` Florian Weimer
2020-02-12 19:51         ` Al Viro
2020-02-12 19:55           ` Rich Felker
2020-02-12 20:01           ` Florian Weimer
2020-02-12 20:17             ` Andreas Schwab
2020-02-12 20:19               ` Rich Felker
2020-02-12 20:26                 ` Florian Weimer
2020-02-12 20:38                   ` Rich Felker
2020-02-12 20:27                 ` Al Viro
2020-02-12 20:36                   ` Rich Felker
2020-02-12 20:18             ` Rich Felker
2020-02-12 20:38             ` Paul Eggert
2020-02-21  4:09             ` Aleksa Sarai
2020-02-21  5:02               ` Al Viro
2020-02-21  5:21                 ` Aleksa Sarai [this message]
2020-02-12 18:50     ` Florian Weimer
2020-02-12 18:55       ` Christoph Hellwig

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