Re: [RFC v9][PATCH 05/13] Dump memory address space

From: Serge E. Hallyn
Date: Mon Nov 10 2008 - 15:13:23 EST


Quoting Oren Laadan (orenl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx):
> +/**
> + * cr_fill_fname - return pathname of a given file
> + * @path: path name
> + * @root: relative root
> + * @buf: buffer for pathname
> + * @n: buffer length (in) and pathname length (out)
> + */
> +static char *
> +cr_fill_fname(struct path *path, struct path *root, char *buf, int *n)
> +{
> + struct path tmp = *root;
> + char *fname;
> +
> + BUG_ON(!buf);
> + fname = __d_path(path, &tmp, buf, *n);
> + if (!IS_ERR(fname))
> + *n = (buf + (*n) - fname);
> + /*
> + * FIXME: if __d_path() changed these, it must have stepped out of
> + * init's namespace. Since currently we require a unified namespace
> + * within the container: simply fail.
> + */
> + if (tmp.mnt != root->mnt || tmp.dentry != root->dentry)
> + fname = ERR_PTR(-EBADF);
> +
> + return fname;
> +}

You still are not taking the dcache_lock around __d_path.

-serge
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