> > From: Miklos Szeredi <[email protected]>
> >
> > Add a new filesystem flag, that results in the VFS not checking if the
> > current process has enough privileges to do an mknod().
> >
> > This is needed on filesystems, where an unprivileged user may be able
> > to create a device node, without causing security problems.
>
> A user should never be able to create devices.
A user can already create a device with fuse implicitly. This patch
would just allow that explicitly.
Take this example: I've loopback mounted an UML disk image using fuse
(no privileges required), and want to create some device nodes. I
can't yet boot the UML because the device node is missing from the
image. So what should I do. Currently I have to manipulate the
mounted image as root. But that's really shouldn't be needed.
> And no, I don't want to see a filesystem that implements it's own
> file operations for device nodes.
I don't want that either, and it has nothing to do with this patch.
Miklos
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