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From: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>,
	Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>, Tony Jones <tonyj@suse.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	chrisw@sous-sol.org, linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org,
	viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk
Subject: Re: [RFC 0/28] Patches to pass vfsmount to LSM inode security hooks
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 21:31:46 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <17864.22802.571551.987434@notabene.brown> (raw)
In-Reply-To: message from Christoph Hellwig on Tuesday February 6

On Tuesday February 6, hch@infradead.org wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 12:51:52AM -0800, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> > Who cares? There is no way to export a partial directory, and in any
> > case the subtree_check crap is borken beyond repair (see cross-directory
> > renames which lead to actual changes to the filehandle - broken, broken,
> > broken!!!!).
> 
> It's getting a little oftopic for this thread, but is there a chance we
> could just kill that crap after a resonable deprecation period?

Probably.  A couple of years?
nfs-utils 1.1.0 is due to stop subtree_check from being the default.
After that is released, the next kernel can start printing warnings
that it might stop working in a couple of years.

NeilBrown

  reply	other threads:[~2007-02-06 10:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-05 18:22 [RFC 0/28] Patches to pass vfsmount to LSM inode security hooks Tony Jones
2007-02-05 18:22 ` [RFC 1/28] Pass struct vfsmount to the inode_create LSM hook Tony Jones
2007-02-05 18:22 ` [RFC 2/28] Remove redundant check from proc_setattr() Tony Jones
2007-02-05 19:16   ` Chris Wright
2007-02-05 18:22 ` [RFC 3/28] Pass struct file down to remove_suid and children Tony Jones
2007-02-05 18:22 ` [RFC 4/28] Add a vfsmount parameter to notify_change() Tony Jones
2007-02-05 18:23 ` [RFC 5/28] Pass struct vfsmount to the inode_setattr LSM hook Tony Jones
2007-02-05 18:23 ` [RFC 6/28] Add struct vfsmount parameter to vfs_mkdir() Tony Jones
2007-02-05 18:23 ` [RFC 7/28] Pass struct vfsmount to the inode_mkdir LSM hook Tony Jones
2007-02-05 18:23 ` [RFC 8/28] Add a struct vfsmount parameter to vfs_mknod() Tony Jones
2007-02-05 18:23 ` [RFC 9/28] Pass struct vfsmount to the inode_mknod LSM hook Tony Jones
2007-02-05 18:23 ` [RFC 10/28] Add a struct vfsmount parameter to vfs_symlink() Tony Jones
2007-02-05 18:23 ` [RFC 11/28] Pass struct vfsmount to the inode_symlink LSM hook Tony Jones
2007-02-05 18:24 ` [RFC 12/28] Pass struct vfsmount to the inode_readlink " Tony Jones
2007-02-05 18:24 ` [RFC 13/28] Add struct vfsmount parameters to vfs_link() Tony Jones
2007-02-05 18:24 ` [RFC 14/28] Pass struct vfsmount to the inode_link LSM hook Tony Jones
2007-02-05 18:24 ` [RFC 15/28] Add a struct vfsmount parameter to vfs_rmdir() Tony Jones
2007-02-05 18:24 ` [RFC 16/28] Pass struct vfsmount to the inode_rmdir LSM hook Tony Jones
2007-02-05 18:24 ` [RFC 17/28] Add a struct vfsmount parameter to vfs_unlink() Tony Jones
2007-02-05 18:25 ` [RFC 18/28] Pass struct vfsmount to the inode_unlink LSM hook Tony Jones
2007-02-05 18:25 ` [RFC 19/28] Add struct vfsmount parameters to vfs_rename() Tony Jones
2007-02-05 18:25 ` [RFC 20/28] Pass struct vfsmount to the inode_rename LSM hook Tony Jones
2007-02-05 18:25 ` [RFC 21/28] Add a struct vfsmount parameter to vfs_setxattr() Tony Jones
2007-02-05 18:25 ` [RFC 22/28] Pass struct vfsmount to the inode_setxattr LSM hook Tony Jones
2007-02-05 18:25 ` [RFC 23/28] Add a struct vfsmount parameter to vfs_getxattr() Tony Jones
2007-02-05 18:25 ` [RFC 24/28] Pass struct vfsmount to the inode_getxattr LSM hook Tony Jones
2007-02-05 18:26 ` [RFC 25/28] Add a struct vfsmount parameter to vfs_listxattr() Tony Jones
2007-02-05 18:26 ` [RFC 26/28] Pass struct vfsmount to the inode_listxattr LSM hook Tony Jones
2007-02-05 18:26 ` [RFC 27/28] Add a struct vfsmount parameter to vfs_removexattr() Tony Jones
2007-02-05 18:26 ` [RFC 28/28] Pass struct vfsmount to the inode_removexattr LSM hook Tony Jones
2007-02-05 18:44 ` [RFC 0/28] Patches to pass vfsmount to LSM inode security hooks Christoph Hellwig
2007-02-05 18:58   ` Trond Myklebust
2007-02-05 19:02     ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-02-06  3:20       ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2007-02-06  8:51         ` Trond Myklebust
2007-02-06  9:48           ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-02-06 10:31             ` Neil Brown [this message]
2007-02-07  9:25           ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2007-02-06  9:47         ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-02-06 10:26           ` Neil Brown
2007-02-06 10:37             ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-02-12 18:32               ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-02-07  9:58           ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2007-02-07 12:11             ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-02-05 19:15     ` Chris Wright
2007-02-06  0:44   ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2007-02-06  2:13   ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2007-02-06  9:52     ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-02-07  9:04       ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2007-02-06 12:55     ` Stephen Smalley
2007-02-07  8:55       ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2007-02-07 15:43         ` Chris Wright
2007-02-07 16:06           ` Stephen Smalley
2007-02-07 16:25           ` Jeff Mahoney
2007-02-07 19:55             ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2007-02-05 19:26 ` Casey Schaufler
2007-02-05 19:39   ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-02-05 19:50   ` Chris Wright
2007-02-05 20:23     ` Casey Schaufler
2007-02-06  2:30     ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2007-02-06 14:20     ` Tetsuo Handa

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