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

[Oren Laadan]

Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> 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.
> 

You still are right.

Oren.
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