Re: [PATCH] vfs: remove redundant sanity check in do_mount

[Al Viro]

On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 12:53:32AM +0900, Seunghun Lee wrote:
> In sys_mount, getname() checks dir_name.
> So do_mount needn't check dir_name again.

... and simple grep shows four more call sites.  At the very least, the
commit message needs to cover those as well, *if* the check is, indeed,
redundant.  From the look through those guys it looks like it is, but...
I wonder if it would make more sense to pass char __user * instead of
char * here.  And do getname() inside do_mount().  As it is, we do
getname() in all callers *and* never look into the result of said getname()
until passing it to do_mount().  So how about just passing userland pointer
all the way down to do_mount() (grep for callers and watch out for ones
in arch/alpha/kernel/osf_sys.c) and doing getname() in do_mount() itself?
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