Re: [PATCH] namespace.c: fix bind mount from foreign namespace

[Ram <linuxram@us.ibm.com>]

On Fri, 2005-05-13 at 10:17, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> > > Bind mount from a foreign namespace results in
> > 
> > ... -EINVAL
> 
> Wrong answer.  Look again, you wrote the code, so you _should_ know ;)

I guess Al agrees that bind mount from foreign namespace must be
disallowed.

Which means what Jamie pointed to was right. Attached the patch which
fixes it.


> 
> Miklos
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--- /home/linux/views/linux-2.6.12-rc4/fs/namespace.c	2005-05-06 23:22:29.000000000 -0700
+++ 2.6.12-rc4/fs/namespace.c	2005-05-13 10:17:19.000000000 -0700
@@ -633,7 +633,7 @@ static int do_loopback(struct nameidata 
 
 	down_write(&current->namespace->sem);
 	err = -EINVAL;
-	if (check_mnt(nd->mnt) && (!recurse || check_mnt(old_nd.mnt))) {
+	if (check_mnt(nd->mnt) && check_mnt(old_nd.mnt)) {
 		err = -ENOMEM;
 		if (recurse)
 			mnt = copy_tree(old_nd.mnt, old_nd.dentry);