Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 30 Apr 2005 08:32:38 +0100 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] cifs: handle termination of cifs oplockd kernel thread |
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On Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 01:18:19AM +0200, Bodo Eggert <harvested.in.lkml@posting.7eggert.dyndns.org> wrote: > 4) Turn umounting own mounts into a non-privileged operation. > > As (AFAI see) the only thing that needs suid privileges is the umount > operation, and it is granted if the user mounted it himself, you can as > well do this simple check in the kernel.
Except that we don't have the concept of a mount owner at the VFS level right now, because everyone is adding stupid suid wrapper hacks instead of trying to fix the problems for real.
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