linux/ipc
Dave Hansen ce8d2cdf3d r/o bind mounts: filesystem helpers for custom 'struct file's
Why do we need r/o bind mounts?

This feature allows a read-only view into a read-write filesystem.  In the
process of doing that, it also provides infrastructure for keeping track of
the number of writers to any given mount.

This has a number of uses.  It allows chroots to have parts of filesystems
writable.  It will be useful for containers in the future because users may
have root inside a container, but should not be allowed to write to
somefilesystems.  This also replaces patches that vserver has had out of the
tree for several years.

It allows security enhancement by making sure that parts of your filesystem
read-only (such as when you don't trust your FTP server), when you don't want
to have entire new filesystems mounted, or when you want atime selectively
updated.  I've been using the following script to test that the feature is
working as desired.  It takes a directory and makes a regular bind and a r/o
bind mount of it.  It then performs some normal filesystem operations on the
three directories, including ones that are expected to fail, like creating a
file on the r/o mount.

This patch:

Some filesystems forego the vfs and may_open() and create their own 'struct
file's.

This patch creates a couple of helper functions which can be used by these
filesystems, and will provide a unified place which the r/o bind mount code
may patch.

Also, rename an existing, static-scope init_file() to a less generic name.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:43:04 -07:00
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compat_mq.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
compat.c fix logic error in ipc compat semctl() 2007-07-06 10:23:43 -07:00
ipc_sysctl.c ipc namespace: remove config ipc ns fix 2007-10-17 08:42:57 -07:00
Makefile [PATCH] sysctl: move SYSV IPC sysctls to their own file 2007-02-14 08:09:59 -08:00
mqueue.c Slab API: remove useless ctor parameter and reorder parameters 2007-10-17 08:42:45 -07:00
msg.c arch/i386/* fs/* ipc/*: mark variables with uninitialized_var() 2007-07-17 16:23:19 -04:00
msgutil.c [PATCH] getting rid of all casts of k[cmz]alloc() calls 2006-12-13 09:05:58 -08:00
sem.c arch/i386/* fs/* ipc/*: mark variables with uninitialized_var() 2007-07-17 16:23:19 -04:00
shm.c r/o bind mounts: filesystem helpers for custom 'struct file's 2007-10-17 08:43:04 -07:00
util.c remove CONFIG_UTS_NS and CONFIG_IPC_NS 2007-07-16 09:05:47 -07:00
util.h remove CONFIG_UTS_NS and CONFIG_IPC_NS 2007-07-16 09:05:47 -07:00