Re: [PATCH 2/4] integrity: special fs magic

[Mimi Zohar]

Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 08/09/2008 02:47:59 PM:

 
> On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 12:15:19PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 12:04:48PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > > On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 02:55:42PM -0400, Mimi Zohar wrote:
> > > >     - Move special fs magic number definitions to magic.h
> > > >     - Add magic.h include
> > > > 
> > > >     Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > 
> > > Why?  What is this patch for?  Are you going to do something with 
these
> > > magic values later?
> > 
> > Ok, I now see the follow-up patch that does something with them.
> > 
> > You should say so in this patch.
> > 
> > And is it really ok to be doing things from userspace based on a
> > filesystem "magic" key?  Those are numbers we have never exported to
> > userspace before, what happens if they are changed?
> 
> These constants re exported to userspace in struct statfs .type and
> better don't change.  Providing the symbolic names for them sounds
> like a good idea to me.  What userspace does with that or not is
> their business, and if it's utterly stupid it'll be their fault if
> it doesn't work as expected..

ok.

Mimi
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