From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 14 Jun 2001 13:18:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 14 Jun 2001 13:18:27 -0400 Received: from router-100M.swansea.linux.org.uk ([194.168.151.17]:1549 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 14 Jun 2001 13:18:10 -0400 Subject: Re: RFC: from FIBMAP to FIONDEV To: j@falooley.org (Jason Lunz) Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 18:16:36 +0100 (BST) Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, almesber@lrc.di.epfl.ch In-Reply-To: <20010614100354.A2129@orr.falooley.org> from "Jason Lunz" at Jun 14, 2001 10:03:54 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL3] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: From: Alan Cox Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > I'm looking for a way to do FIBMAP on linux 2.4 without being root, and > I learned from the archive that it's restricted for security reasons, > and that it's obsolete anyway. I found this discussion about a > replacement called FIONDEV: FIBMAP can be handled per fs by auditing the code paths. First job would be to push the security check into each fs, then audit the fs's and then change them. But its really a 2.5 job since any third party fs might spontaneously become insecure oitherwise