Miklos Szeredi <mik...@szeredi.hu> writes: > On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 1:43 PM, Eric W. Biederman >> Miklos if you as the fuse maintainer aren't worried about network >> filesystems, and multiple namespaces I won't worry either. Especially >> since modern versions of fuse aren't affected. > > I think the above conditions (local mount blocks unlink/rename) are > enough to prevent most of the problems, of which there aren't many in > any case.
Dumb question. What prevents someone setting up a race between the fusermount permission checks and replacing the destination with a symlink, perhaps to /etc/shadow? Do we need a MS_NOFOLLOW? Eric -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
