Re: Bad ext3/nfs DoS bug

[Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>]

Neil Brown wrote:
> On Wednesday July 26, sandeen@sandeen.net wrote:

> > Hm, with this, ext3.ko has a new dependency on exportfs.ko.  Is that 
> > desirable/acceptable?
>
> Drat, you're right.
> No, I don't think that is what we want.
> I'll do it differently in a day or so.

Would moving export_iget into fs/inode.c & exporting it from there be a 
reasonable way to go?  At least ext2 & ext3 both have this need (prevent 
nfs access to special inodes) so putting the bulk of what they need for 
get_dentry (i.e. export_iget) somewhere common seems like a decent 
option to me.

-Eric
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