Re: [PATCH] 2.5.72: follow_mount / follow_link

viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk
Tue, 24 Jun 2003 15:54:18 +0100


On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 10:41:59AM -0400, Mike Waychison wrote:

> The changes made in fs/namei.c@1.42 break this behaviour iff the dentry
> being follow_link'ed is a root dentry. This is becauseo

... mixing symlinks and mounting is ripe with very ugly races and corner
cases. Not allowed - symlink can't be a mountpoint or a mounted object.
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