Bug#508867: stale nfs filehandle

On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 11:32 +1100, Tim Connors wrote: severity grave tags 508867 security thanks [...] As a test, I commented out the access() calls in AuGetAddr.c that are commented as saying checks REAL id, and this bug disappears. But now that I know the purpose of the access() call, I

Bug#508867: stale nfs filehandle

severity grave tags 508867 security thanks On Thu, 29 Jan 2009, Tim Connors wrote: Hmmm, Trond reckons this race condition always has existed in the kernel, implying that since userland can work around it, it should: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12557 Would it be possible to,

Bug#508867: stale nfs filehandle

Hmmm, Trond reckons this race condition always has existed in the kernel, implying that since userland can work around it, it should: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12557 Would it be possible to, upon an ESTALE return result from the acccess() call, to open() the file instead, and