On 28.11.18 г. 9:46 ч., Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 09:44:59AM +0200, Nikolay Borisov wrote:
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>> On 28.11.18 г. 5:07 ч., Lu Fengqi wrote:
>>> The generic/513 tell that cloning into a file did not strip security
>>> privileges (suid, capabilities) like a regular write would.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Lu Fengqi <lufq.f...@cn.fujitsu.com>
>>> ---
>>> The xfs and ocfs2 call generic_remap_file_range_prep to drop file
>>> privileges, I'm not sure whether btrfs should do the same thing.
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>> Why do you think btrfs shouldn't do the same thing. Looking at
>> remap_file_range_prep it seems that btrfs is missing a ton of checks
>> that are useful i.e immutable files/aligned offsets etc.
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> Any chance we could move btrfs over to use remap_file_range_prep so that
> all file systems share the exact same checks?
I'm not very familiar with the, Filipe is more familiar so adding to CC.
But IMO we should do that provided there are no blockers.
Filipe, what do you think, is it feasible?
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