Quoting Dave Hansen ([email protected]):
> On Fri, 2006-07-14 at 10:49 -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > - if (current->fsuid == inode->i_uid)
> > + if ((current->fsuid == inode->i_uid) &&
> > + (current->nsproxy->user_ns == inode->i_sb->user_ns))
> > mode >>= 6;
>
> I really don't think assigning a user namespace to a superblock is the
> right way to go. Seems to me like the _view_ into the filesystem is
> what you want to modify. That would seem to me to mean that each
> 'struct namespace' (filesystem namespace) or vfsmount would be assigned
> a corresponding user namespace, *not* the superblock.
yes, of course, vfsmount, which I assume is what Eric meant?
Which means we'd have to do this at permission() using the nameidata, or
pass nd to generic_permission.
-serge
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