Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 20 May 2011 13:43:39 +0100 | From | Andy Whitcroft <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/7] overlay filesystem v9 |
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On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 10:18:30AM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> Yeah, it should probably do something like: > > if (inode->i_op->getattr) { > struct kstat stat; > inode->i_op->getattr(...) > uid = stat.uid; > } else { > uid = inode->i_uid; > } > > The problem is that getattr takes a vfsmount, which makes this > impossible to do cleanly. And the solution is for ->getattr() to lose > that argument, which is a bit more involved :(
Ok. I am going to take this as a bug in the LSM, so ignore my patch here. I have been poking at what the LSM is doing and actually I think I see the flaw, so I will take the issue up with them.
In light of that take this as a "tested heavily and it worked without issues" on the V9 version.
Tested-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
-apw
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