Messages in this thread | | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Date | Wed, 19 Feb 2020 17:21:33 -0800 | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH] afs: Create a mountpoint through symlink() and remove through rmdir() |
| |
On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 4:11 PM David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> wrote: > > If symlink() is given a magic prefix in the target string, turn it into a > mountpoint instead. > > The prefix is "//_afs3_mount:".
That sounds sane.
Your argument that if the prefix is made really long it couldn't be a valid symlink at all on AFS is fair, but seems somewhat excessive.
The only issue I see with this interface is that you can now create these kinds of things by untarring a tar-ball etc.
I can see that being both very convenient and a possible security pain. But I'm assuming that the real security is on the server side anyway and not just anybody can create arbitrary things like these?
Linus
| |