Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] ceph: quota: fix quota subdir mounts

From: Yan, Zheng
Date: Mon Mar 18 2019 - 05:12:53 EST


On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 5:06 PM Gregory Farnum <gfarnum@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 2:32 PM Yan, Zheng <ukernel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > After reading the code carefully. I feel a little uncomfortable with
> > the "lookup_ino" in get_quota_realm. how about populating directories
> > above the 'mount subdir' during mounting (similar to cifs_get_root ).
>
> Isn't that going to be a problem for any clients which have restricted
> filesystem access permissions? They may not be able to see all the
> directories above their mount point.
> -Greg

using lookup_ino to get inode above the "mount subdir" has the same problem