2011/8/4 Pavel Shilovsky <[email protected]>: > 2011/8/4 Jeff Layton <[email protected]>: >> Hi Pavel, >> >> We have a bit of a problem... >> >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=727834 >> >> The shared superblock patches seem to have broken the ability to mount >> directories that live under other directories to which the mounting >> user doesn't have permissions. >> >> IOW, suppose we have this shared out: >> >> /share/dir1/dir2 >> >> ...if the permissions on dir1 don't allow the mounting user to access >> it, then cifs_get_root will fail. We'll need to come up with a new >> scheme for handling this that doesn't require access to every component >> of the prefixpath. >> >> I'm not sure what the right fix is here...we may need to come up with a >> scheme more like NFS does. It will alter the tree when it discovers >> that a root dir that it previously was working on is actually a subdir >> of another mount. >> >> Thoughts? >> -- >> Jeff Layton <[email protected]> >> > > Thanks for the report. I understand the problem, let me think how to > fix it right. > > -- > Best regards, > Pavel Shilovsky. >
According to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=727834, it seems to me that the problem is fixed. If the situation changes, let me know, please. -- Best regards, Pavel Shilovsky. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
