Re: r-o bind in nfsd

[Miklos Szeredi]

> On Fri, 2008-03-21 at 19:52 +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> > Traditionally we have syscalls, and nfsd.  Both of them want the
> > security checks, and I think nfsd wants the read-only mount checking
> > as well, but I'm not entirely sure.  Maybe we can handle that by just
> > making nfsd acquire a write-ref on the mount and keep it while it's
> > exported.
> 
> The only question for me would be where the current r/o checks are
> happening (IS_RDONLY()).  I generally based my patches on replacing
> those calls.  

In may_create()/may_delete() on parent directory.  So that one needs
audit of all callers, unless Al can be convinced that moving those
checks into the VFS makes sense.

Miklos
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