Re: [RFC] Add vfsmount to vfs helper functions.

2008-02-17 Thread Al Viro
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 06:00:30PM +0900, Tetsuo Handa wrote: Hello. This is (c) Add new hooks. approach I proposed at http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org/msg11536.html . Although this is an incomplete patch, I want to know whether you can tolerate this approach or

Re: [RFC] Add vfsmount to vfs helper functions.

2008-02-17 Thread Tetsuo Handa
Hello. No printable comments, except for that: (e) why don't you guys move the Linus' Serious Mistake to _callers_ of vfs_mknod() and its ilk? Which obviously solves all problems with having vfsmount. Excuse me. I didn't understand what the Linus' Serious Mistake to _callers_ of

[RFC] Add vfsmount to vfs helper functions.

2008-01-25 Thread Kentaro Takeda
In the LSM ml, we are discussing about how to know requested pathnames within LSM modules. Currently, VFS helper functions don't pass struct vfsmount parameter. Therefore, we cannot calculate requested pathnames within LSM modules because LSM hooks can't know struct vfsmount parameter that