Thread (60 messages) 60 messages, 7 authors, 2020-01-19

Re: [PATCH RFC 0/1] mount: universally disallow mounting over symlinks

From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Date: 2020-01-14 04:39:45
Also in: linux-fsdevel, lkml, stable

On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 08:25:19AM +0800, Ian Kent wrote:
This isn't right.

There's actually nothing stopping a user from using a direct map
entry that's a multi-mount without an actual mount at its root.
So there could be directories created under these, it's just not
usually done.

I'm pretty sure I don't check and disallow this.
IDGI...  How the hell will that work in v5?  Who will set _any_
traps outside the one in root in that scenario?  autofs_lookup()
won't (there it's conditional upon indirect mount).  Neither
will autofs_dir_mkdir() (conditional upon version being less
than 5).  Who will, then?

Confused...
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