From: Pascal Schmidt <der.eremit@email.de>
To: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Possible permissions bug on NFSv3 kernel client
Date: Sat, 1 May 2004 12:54:52 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0405011240420.231@neptune.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1083357597.13656.37.camel@lade.trondhjem.org>
On Fri, 30 Apr 2004, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> So why do you think that is inconsistent with my statement: "the
> permissions checking has to be done by the server, period"?
I see it wasn't clear from my reply. I don't disagree at all.
Permission checking is the server's job. Clients are untrusted.
> This should be entirely consistent with local file behaviour.
> Particularly since the code to deal with the read-only mount option in
> nfs_permission() was pretty much cut-n-pasted from vfs_permission().
The original poster said it didn't work for him on an NFSv3 mount.
Looking at nfs_permission() I (of course) agree it looks innocent
enough.
--
Ciao,
Pascal
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2004-04-30 20:17 ` Pascal Schmidt
2004-04-30 20:39 ` Trond Myklebust
2004-05-01 10:54 ` Pascal Schmidt [this message]
2004-05-04 9:55 ` Colin Paton
2004-05-04 13:52 ` Trond Myklebust
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2004-04-29 20:49 ` Pascal Schmidt
2004-04-29 21:17 ` Trond Myklebust
2004-04-29 11:02 Colin Paton
2004-04-29 17:39 ` Trond Myklebust
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