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Miklos Szeredi d77a1d5b61 [PATCH] fuse: introduce list for requests under I/O
Create a new list for requests in the process of being transfered to/from
userspace.  This will be needed to be able to abort all requests even those
currently under I/O

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-16 23:15:30 -08:00
Miklos Szeredi 83cfd49351 [PATCH] fuse: introduce unified request state
The state of request was made up of 2 bitfields (->sent and ->finished) and of
the fact that the request was on a list or not.

Unify this into a single state field.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-16 23:15:30 -08:00
Miklos Szeredi 6383bdaa2e [PATCH] fuse: miscellaneous cleanup
- remove some unneeded assignments

 - use kzalloc instead of kmalloc + memset

 - simplify setting sb->s_fs_info

 - in fuse_send_init() use fuse_get_request() instead of
   do_get_request() helper

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-16 23:15:30 -08:00
Miklos Szeredi 8bfc016d2e [PATCH] fuse: uninline some functions
Inline keyword is unnecessary in most cases.  Clean them up.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-16 23:15:29 -08:00
Miklos Szeredi b3bebd94bb [PATCH] fuse: handle error INIT reply
Handle the case when the INIT request is answered with an error.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-16 23:15:29 -08:00
Miklos Szeredi f43b155a5a [PATCH] fuse: fix request_end()
This function used the request object after decrementing its reference count
and releasing the lock.  This could in theory lead to all sorts of problems.

Fix and simplify at the same time.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-16 23:15:29 -08:00
Miklos Szeredi 222f1d6918 [PATCH] fuse: fuse_copy_finish() order fix
fuse_copy_finish() must be called before request_end(), since the later might
sleep, and no sleeping is allowed between fuse_copy_one() and
fuse_copy_finish() because of kmap_atomic()/kunmap_atomic() used in them.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-16 23:15:29 -08:00
Jes Sorensen 1b1dcc1b57 [PATCH] mutex subsystem, semaphore to mutex: VFS, ->i_sem
This patch converts the inode semaphore to a mutex. I have tested it on
XFS and compiled as much as one can consider on an ia64. Anyway your
luck with it might be different.

Modified-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

(finished the conversion)

Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2006-01-09 15:59:24 -08:00
Miklos Szeredi 39ee059aff [PATCH] fuse: check file type in lookup
Previously invalid types were quietly changed to regular files, but at
revalidation the inode was changed to bad.  This was rather inconsistent
behavior.

Now check if the type is valid on initial lookup, and return -EIO if not.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06 08:33:56 -08:00
Miklos Szeredi 6ad84acab9 [PATCH] fuse: ensure progress in read and write
In direct_io mode, send at least one page per reqest.  Previously it was
possible that reqests with zero data were sent, and hence the read/write
didn't make any progress, resulting in an infinite (though interruptible)
loop.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06 08:33:56 -08:00
Miklos Szeredi 3ec870d524 [PATCH] fuse: make maximum write data configurable
Make the maximum size of write data configurable by the filesystem.  The
previous fixed 4096 limit only worked on architectures where the page size is
less or equal to this.  This change make writing work on other architectures
too, and also lets the filesystem receive bigger write requests in direct_io
mode.

Normal writes which go through the page cache are still limited to a page
sized chunk per request.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06 08:33:56 -08:00
Miklos Szeredi 1d3d752b47 [PATCH] fuse: clean up request size limit checking
Change the way a too large request is handled.  Until now in this case the
device read returned -EINVAL and the operation returned -EIO.

Make it more flexibible by not returning -EINVAL from the read, but restarting
it instead.

Also remove the fixed limit on setxattr data and let the filesystem provide as
large a read buffer as it needs to handle the extended attribute data.

The symbolic link length is already checked by VFS to be less than PATH_MAX,
so the extra check against FUSE_SYMLINK_MAX is not needed.

The check in fuse_create_open() against FUSE_NAME_MAX is not needed, since the
dentry has already been looked up, and hence the name already checked.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06 08:33:56 -08:00
Miklos Szeredi 248d86e87d [PATCH] fuse: fail file operations on bad inode
Make file operations on a bad inode fail.  This just makes things a
bit more consistent.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06 08:33:55 -08:00
Miklos Szeredi 6f9f11806a [PATCH] fuse: add code documentation
Document some not-so-trivial functions.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06 08:33:55 -08:00
Miklos Szeredi 8cbdf1e6f6 [PATCH] fuse: support caching negative dentries
Add support for caching negative dentries.

Up till now, ->d_revalidate() always forced a new lookup on these.  Now let
the lookup method return a zero node ID (not used for anything else) meaning a
negative entry, but with a positive cache timeout.  The old way of signaling
negative entry (replying ENOENT) still works.

Userspace should check the ABI minor version to see whether sending a zero ID
is allowed by the kernel or not.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06 08:33:55 -08:00
Miklos Szeredi de5f120255 [PATCH] fuse: add frsize to statfs reply
Add 'frsize' member to the statfs reply.

I'm not sure if sending f_fsid will ever be needed, but just in case leave
some space at the end of the structure, so less compatibility mess would be
required.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06 08:33:55 -08:00
Miklos Szeredi 45714d6561 [PATCH] fuse: bump interface version
Change interface version to 7.4.

Following changes will need backward compatibility support, so store the minor
version returned by userspace.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06 08:33:55 -08:00
Miklos Szeredi 4633a22e7a [PATCH] fuse: clean up page offset calculation
Use page_offset() instead of doing page offset calculation by hand.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06 08:33:55 -08:00
Miklos Szeredi 0aa7c6990e [PATCH] fuse: clean up fuse_lookup()
Simplify fuse_lookup() and related functions.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06 08:33:54 -08:00
Miklos Szeredi 2827d0b23b [PATCH] fuse: check for invalid node ID in fuse_create_open()
Check for invalid node ID values in the new atomic create+open method.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-28 14:42:26 -08:00
Miklos Szeredi f007d5c961 [PATCH] fuse: check directory aliasing in mkdir
Check the created directory inode for aliases in the mkdir() method.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-28 14:42:26 -08:00
Miklos Szeredi befc649c22 [PATCH] FUSE: pass file handle in setattr
This patch passes the file handle supplied in iattr to userspace, in case the
->setattr() was invoked from sys_ftruncate().  This solves the permission
checking (or lack thereof) in ftruncate() for the class of filesystems served
by an unprivileged userspace process.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07 07:53:42 -08:00
Miklos Szeredi fd72faac95 [PATCH] FUSE: atomic create+open
This patch adds an atomic create+open operation.  This does not yet work if
the file type changes between lookup and create+open, but solves the
permission checking problems for the separte create and open methods.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07 07:53:42 -08:00
Miklos Szeredi 31d40d74b4 [PATCH] FUSE: add access call
Add a new access call, which will only be called if ->permission is invoked
from sys_access().  In all other cases permission checking is delayed until
the actual filesystem operation.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07 07:53:42 -08:00
Christoph Hellwig d8ba3b7310 [PATCH] fuse: remove dead code from fuse_permission
The -EROFS check has moved up to permission() in the VFS a while ago.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07 07:53:37 -08:00
Miklos Szeredi 1779381dea [PATCH] fuse: spelling fixes
Correct some typos and inconsistent use of "initialise" vs "initialize" in
comments.  Reported by Ioannis Barkas.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-30 17:37:24 -08:00
Miklos Szeredi f12ec44070 [PATCH] fuse: clean up dead code related to nfs exporting
Remove last remains of NFS exportability support.

The code is actually buggy (as reported by Akshat Aranya), since 'alias'
will be leaked if it's non-null and alias->d_flags has DCACHE_DISCONNECTED.

This is not an active bug, since there will never be any disconnected
dentries.  But it's better to get rid of the unnecessary complexity anyway.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-30 17:37:21 -08:00
Miklos Szeredi dd190d066b [PATCH] fuse: check O_DIRECT
Check O_DIRECT and return -EINVAL error in open.  dentry_open() also checks
this but only after the open method is called.  This patch optimizes away
the unnecessary upcalls in this case.

It could be a correctness issue too: if filesystem has open() with side
effect, then it should fail before doing the open, not after.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-30 12:41:18 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi ee4e52719c [PATCH] fuse: check reserved node ID values
This patch checks reserved node ID values returned by lookup and creation
operations.  In case one of the reserved values is sent, return -EIO.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-28 07:46:40 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi 7c352bdf04 [PATCH] FUSE: don't allow restarting of system calls
This patch removes ability to interrupt and restart operations while there
hasn't been any side-effect.

The reason: applications.  There are some apps it seems that generate
signals at a fast rate.  This means, that if the operation cannot make
enough progress between two signals, it will be restarted for ever.  This
bug actually manifested itself with 'krusader' trying to open a file for
writing under sshfs.  Thanks to Eduard Czimbalmos for the report.

The problem can be solved just by making open() uninterruptible, because in
this case it was the truncate operation that slowed down the progress.  But
it's better to solve this by simply not allowing interrupts at all (except
SIGKILL), because applications don't expect file operations to be
interruptible anyway.  As an added bonus the code is simplified somewhat.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 14:03:48 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi 8254798199 [PATCH] FUSE: add fsync operation for directories
This patch adds a new FSYNCDIR request, which is sent when fsync is called
on directories.  This operation is available in libfuse 2.3-pre1 or
greater.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 14:03:47 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi b36c31ba95 [PATCH] fuse: don't update file times
Don't change mtime/ctime/atime to local time on read/write.  Rather invalidate
file attributes, so next stat() will force a GETATTR call.  Bug reported by
Ben Grimm.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 14:03:47 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi 45323fb764 [PATCH] fuse: more flexible caching
Make data caching behavior selectable on a per-open basis instead of
per-mount.  Compatibility for the old mount options 'kernel_cache' and
'direct_io' is retained in the userspace library (version 2.4.0-pre1 or
later).

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 14:03:47 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi 04730fef1f [PATCH] fuse: transfer readdir data through device
This patch removes a long lasting "hack" in FUSE, which used a separate
channel (a file descriptor refering to a disk-file) to transfer directory
contents from userspace to the kernel.

The patch adds three new operations (OPENDIR, READDIR, RELEASEDIR), which
have semantics and implementation exactly maching the respective file
operations (OPEN, READ, RELEASE).

This simplifies the directory reading code.  Also disk space is not
necessary, which can be important in embedded systems.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 14:03:47 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi 413ef8cb30 [PATCH] FUSE - direct I/O
This patch adds support for the "direct_io" mount option of FUSE.

When this mount option is specified, the page cache is bypassed for
read and write operations.  This is useful for example, if the
filesystem doesn't know the size of files before reading them, or when
any kind of caching is harmful.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 14:03:46 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi 5a53368277 [PATCH] fuse: stricter mount option checking
Check for the presence of all mandatory mount options.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 14:03:46 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi 87729a5514 [PATCH] FUSE: tighten check for processes allowed access
This patch tightens the check for allowing processes to access non-privileged
mounts.  The rational is that the filesystem implementation can control the
behavior or get otherwise unavailable information of the filesystem user.  If
the filesystem user process has the same uid, gid, and is not suid or sgid
application, then access is safe.  Otherwise access is not allowed unless the
"allow_other" mount option is given (for which policy is controlled by the
userspace mount utility).

Thanks to everyone linux-fsdevel, especially Martin Mares who helped uncover
problems with the previous approach.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 14:03:46 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi db50b96c0f [PATCH] FUSE - readpages operation
This patch adds readpages support to FUSE.

With the help of the readpages() operation multiple reads are bundled
together and sent as a single request to userspace.  This can improve
reading performace.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 14:03:46 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi 92a8780e11 [PATCH] FUSE - extended attribute operations
This patch adds the extended attribute operations to FUSE.

The following operations are added:

 o getxattr
 o setxattr
 o listxattr
 o removexattr

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 14:03:45 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi 1e9a4ed939 [PATCH] FUSE - mount options
This patch adds miscellaneous mount options to the FUSE filesystem.

The following mount options are added:

 o default_permissions:  check permissions with generic_permission()
 o allow_other:          allow other users to access files
 o allow_root:           allow root to access files
 o kernel_cache:         don't invalidate page cache on open

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 14:03:45 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi b6aeadeda2 [PATCH] FUSE - file operations
This patch adds the file operations of FUSE.

The following operations are added:

 o open
 o flush
 o release
 o fsync
 o readpage
 o commit_write

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 14:03:45 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi 9e6268db49 [PATCH] FUSE - read-write operations
This patch adds the write filesystem operations of FUSE.

The following operations are added:

 o setattr
 o symlink
 o mknod
 o mkdir
 o create
 o unlink
 o rmdir
 o rename
 o link

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 14:03:45 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi e5e5558e92 [PATCH] FUSE - read-only operations
This patch adds the read-only filesystem operations of FUSE.

This contains the following files:

 o dir.c
    - directory, symlink and file-inode operations

The following operations are added:

 o lookup
 o getattr
 o readlink
 o follow_link
 o directory open
 o readdir
 o directory release
 o permission
 o dentry revalidate
 o statfs

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 14:03:45 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi 334f485df8 [PATCH] FUSE - device functions
This adds the FUSE device handling functions.

This contains the following files:

 o dev.c
    - fuse device operations (read, write, release, poll)
    - registers misc device
    - support for sending requests to userspace

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 14:03:44 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi d8a5ba4545 [PATCH] FUSE - core
This patch adds FUSE core.

This contains the following files:

 o inode.c
    - superblock operations (alloc_inode, destroy_inode, read_inode,
      clear_inode, put_super, show_options)
    - registers FUSE filesystem

 o fuse_i.h
    - private header file

Requirements
============

 The most important difference between orinary filesystems and FUSE is
 the fact, that the filesystem data/metadata is provided by a userspace
 process run with the privileges of the mount "owner" instead of the
 kernel, or some remote entity usually running with elevated
 privileges.

 The security implication of this is that a non-privileged user must
 not be able to use this capability to compromise the system.  Obvious
 requirements arising from this are:

  - mount owner should not be able to get elevated privileges with the
    help of the mounted filesystem

  - mount owner should not be able to induce undesired behavior in
    other users' or the super user's processes

  - mount owner should not get illegitimate access to information from
    other users' and the super user's processes

 These are currently ensured with the following constraints:

  1) mount is only allowed to directory or file which the mount owner
    can modify without limitation (write access + no sticky bit for
    directories)

  2) nosuid,nodev mount options are forced

  3) any process running with fsuid different from the owner is denied
     all access to the filesystem

 1) and 2) are ensured by the "fusermount" mount utility which is a
    setuid root application doing the actual mount operation.

 3) is ensured by a check in the permission() method in kernel

 I started thinking about doing 3) in a different way because Christoph
 H. made a big deal out of it, saying that FUSE is unacceptable into
 mainline in this form.

 The suggested use of private namespaces would be OK, but in their
 current form have many limitations that make their use impractical (as
 discussed in this thread).

 Suggested improvements that would address these limitations:

   - implement shared subtrees

   - allow a process to join an existing namespace (make namespaces
     first-class objects)

   - implement the namespace creation/joining in a PAM module

 With all that in place the check of owner against current->fsuid may
 be removed from the FUSE kernel module, without compromising the
 security requirements.

 Suid programs still interesting questions, since they get access even
 to the private namespace causing some information leak (exact
 order/timing of filesystem operations performed), giving some
 ptrace-like capabilities to unprivileged users.  BTW this problem is
 not strictly limited to the namespace approach, since suid programs
 setting fsuid and accessing users' files will succeed with the current
 approach too.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 14:03:44 -07:00