linux/fs
Steve Dickson eb4c86c6a5 nfsd: introduce export flag for v4 pseudoroot
NFSv4 differs from v2 and v3 in that it presents a single unified
filesystem tree, whereas v2 and v3 exported multiple filesystem (whose
roots could be found using a separate mount protocol).

Our original NFSv4 server implementation asked the administrator to
designate a single filesystem as the NFSv4 root, then to mount
filesystems they wished to export underneath.  (Often using bind mounts
of already-existing filesystems.)

This was conceptually simple, and allowed easy implementation, but
created a serious obstacle to upgrading between v2/v3: since the paths
to v4 filesystems were different, administrators would have to adjust
all the paths in client-side mount commands when switching to v4.

Various workarounds are possible.  For example, the administrator could
export "/" and designate it as the v4 root.  However, the security risks
of that approach are obvious, and in any case we shouldn't be requiring
the administrator to take extra steps to fix this problem; instead, the
server should present consistent paths across different versions by
default.

These patches take a modified version of that approach: we provide a new
export option which exports only a subset of a filesystem.  With this
flag, it becomes safe for mountd to export "/" by default, with no need
for additional configuration.

We begin just by defining the new flag.

Signed-off-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2009-12-15 14:00:40 -05:00
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9p 9p: fix readdir corner cases 2009-11-02 08:43:45 -06:00
adfs adfs: remove redundant test on unsigned 2009-09-24 07:21:05 -07:00
affs affs: add ->sync_fs 2009-06-11 21:36:14 -04:00
afs afs: remove cache.h 2009-10-01 16:11:16 -07:00
autofs trivial: remove unnecessary semicolons 2009-09-21 15:14:58 +02:00
autofs4 autofs4 - fix missed case when changing to use struct path 2009-08-31 17:44:05 -10:00
befs fs: Make unload_nls() NULL pointer safe 2009-09-24 07:47:42 -04:00
bfs headers: smp_lock.h redux 2009-07-12 12:22:34 -07:00
btrfs Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/btrfs-unstable 2009-11-11 13:38:59 -08:00
cachefiles enforce ->sync_fs is only called for rw superblock 2009-06-11 21:36:06 -04:00
cifs Merge commit 'v2.6.32-rc8' into HEAD 2009-11-23 12:34:58 -05:00
coda headers: remove sched.h from poll.h 2009-10-04 15:05:10 -07:00
configfs writeback: add name to backing_dev_info 2009-09-11 09:20:26 +02:00
cramfs
debugfs debugfs: use specified mode to possibly mark files read/write only 2009-06-15 21:30:28 -07:00
devpts Move magic numbers into magic.h 2009-09-23 07:39:28 -07:00
dlm dlm: fix socket fd translation 2009-09-30 12:19:44 -05:00
ecryptfs ima: ecryptfs fix imbalance message 2009-10-08 11:31:38 -05:00
efs get rid of BKL in fs/efs 2009-06-17 00:36:36 -04:00
exofs exofs: remove BKL from super operations 2009-09-24 07:47:38 -04:00
exportfs nfs: new subdir Documentation/filesystems/nfs 2009-10-27 19:34:04 -04:00
ext2 Merge branch 'hwpoison' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ak/linux-mce-2.6 2009-09-24 07:53:22 -07:00
ext3 ext3: Wait for proper transaction commit on fsync 2009-11-11 15:22:49 +01:00
ext4 ext4: partial revert to fix double brelse WARNING() 2009-11-08 15:45:44 -05:00
fat Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hirofumi/fatfs-2.6 2009-09-30 09:31:14 -07:00
freevxfs headers: smp_lock.h redux 2009-07-12 12:22:34 -07:00
fscache FS-Cache: Fixup renamed filenames in comments in internal.h 2009-05-27 10:20:13 -07:00
fuse fuse: invalidate target of rename 2009-11-04 10:24:52 +01:00
gfs2 const: mark struct vm_struct_operations 2009-09-27 11:39:25 -07:00
hfs hfs: fix oops on mount with corrupted btree extent records 2009-10-29 07:39:29 -07:00
hfsplus hfsplus: refuse to mount volumes larger than 2TB 2009-10-29 07:39:27 -07:00
hostfs hostfs: set maximum filesize in superblock for proper LFS support 2009-06-30 18:56:03 -07:00
hpfs headers: smp_lock.h redux 2009-07-12 12:22:34 -07:00
hppfs
hugetlbfs Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6 2009-09-24 08:32:11 -07:00
isofs nfs: new subdir Documentation/filesystems/nfs 2009-10-27 19:34:04 -04:00
jbd fs/jbd: Export log_start_commit to fix ext3 build. 2009-11-12 10:24:12 +01:00
jbd2 JBD/JBD2: free j_wbuf if journal init fails. 2009-11-11 15:24:14 +01:00
jffs2 Merge git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6 2009-09-23 10:07:49 -07:00
jfs fs: Make unload_nls() NULL pointer safe 2009-09-24 07:47:42 -04:00
lockd lockd: Remove un-used nfsd headers #includes 2009-12-14 18:12:11 -05:00
minix V3 minixfs: add missing directory type checking 2009-09-23 07:39:57 -07:00
ncpfs const: mark struct vm_struct_operations 2009-09-27 11:39:25 -07:00
nfs Merge commit 'v2.6.32-rc8' into HEAD 2009-11-23 12:34:58 -05:00
nfs_common
nfsd nfsd: introduce export flag for v4 pseudoroot 2009-12-15 14:00:40 -05:00
nilfs2 nilfs2: deleted inconsistent comment in nilfs_load_inode_block() 2009-11-15 17:17:46 +09:00
nls Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hirofumi/fatfs-2.6 2009-09-30 09:31:14 -07:00
notify dnotify: ignore FS_EVENT_ON_CHILD 2009-10-20 18:02:33 -04:00
ntfs Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6 2009-09-24 08:32:11 -07:00
ocfs2 const: constify remaining file_operations 2009-10-01 16:11:11 -07:00
omfs const: constify remaining file_operations 2009-10-01 16:11:11 -07:00
openpromfs
partitions block: Seperate read and write statistics of in_flight requests v2 2009-10-06 20:16:55 +02:00
proc procfs: fix /proc/<pid>/stat stack pointer for kernel threads 2009-11-17 17:40:33 -08:00
qnx4 qnx4: remove write support 2009-09-23 07:39:30 -07:00
quota const: make struct super_block::s_qcop const 2009-09-22 07:17:24 -07:00
ramfs truncate: use new helpers 2009-09-24 08:41:47 -04:00
reiserfs const: make struct super_block::s_qcop const 2009-09-22 07:17:24 -07:00
romfs ROMFS: fix length used with romfs_dev_strnlen() function 2009-10-11 11:33:56 -07:00
smbfs fs: Make unload_nls() NULL pointer safe 2009-09-24 07:47:42 -04:00
squashfs const: mark remaining super_operations const 2009-09-22 07:17:24 -07:00
sysfs sysfs: Don't leak secdata when a sysfs_dirent is freed. 2009-11-05 08:19:18 +11:00
sysv get rid of BKL in fs/sysv 2009-06-17 00:36:37 -04:00
ubifs const: mark struct vm_struct_operations 2009-09-27 11:39:25 -07:00
udf udf: Fix possible corruption when close races with write 2009-09-14 19:13:01 +02:00
ufs ufs: sector_t cannot be negative 2009-06-18 13:03:46 -07:00
xfs xfs: copy li_lsn before dropping AIL lock 2009-11-17 10:26:49 -06:00
Kconfig powerpc: Cleanup Kconfig selection of hugetlbfs support 2009-10-30 15:03:54 +11:00
Kconfig.binfmt
Makefile
aio.c aio.c: move EXPORT* macros to line after function 2009-09-23 07:39:29 -07:00
anon_inodes.c headers: remove sched.h from poll.h 2009-10-04 15:05:10 -07:00
attr.c truncate: new helpers 2009-09-24 08:41:47 -04:00
bad_inode.c
binfmt_aout.c
binfmt_elf.c elf: clean up fill_note_info() 2009-09-24 07:21:01 -07:00
binfmt_elf_fdpic.c fdpic: ignore the loader's PT_GNU_STACK when calculating the stack size 2009-09-24 07:21:02 -07:00
binfmt_em86.c
binfmt_flat.c flat: use IS_ERR_VALUE() helper macro 2009-09-24 07:21:03 -07:00
binfmt_misc.c
binfmt_script.c
binfmt_som.c
bio-integrity.c block: Create bip slabs with embedded integrity vectors 2009-07-01 10:56:25 +02:00
bio.c Fix bio_alloc() and bio_kmalloc() documentation 2009-11-02 11:41:13 +01:00
block_dev.c block: use after free bug in __blkdev_get 2009-10-26 15:27:11 +01:00
buffer.c Merge branch 'writeback' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block 2009-09-25 09:27:30 -07:00
char_dev.c fs/char_dev.c: remove useless loop 2009-09-24 07:21:03 -07:00
compat.c compat.c: Remove dependence on nfsd private headers 2009-12-14 18:12:10 -05:00
compat_binfmt_elf.c
compat_ioctl.c fs: add missing compat_ptr handling for FS_IOC_RESVSP ioctl 2009-11-12 07:25:57 -08:00
dcache.c sched: Pull up the might_sleep() check into cond_resched() 2009-07-18 15:51:44 +02:00
dcookies.c
direct-io.c block: Do away with the notion of hardsect_size 2009-05-22 23:22:54 +02:00
drop_caches.c sysctl: remove "struct file *" argument of ->proc_handler 2009-09-24 07:21:04 -07:00
eventfd.c anonfd: split interface into file creation and install 2009-09-23 07:39:29 -07:00
eventpoll.c epoll: fix nested calls support 2009-06-18 13:03:41 -07:00
exec.c exec: setup_arg_pages() fails to return errors 2009-11-12 07:25:58 -08:00
fcntl.c fcntl: rename F_OWNER_GID to F_OWNER_PGRP 2009-11-17 17:40:33 -08:00
fifo.c
file.c headers: remove sched.h from interrupt.h 2009-10-11 11:20:58 -07:00
file_table.c sysctl: remove "struct file *" argument of ->proc_handler 2009-09-24 07:21:04 -07:00
filesystems.c
fs-writeback.c writeback: pass in super_block to bdi_start_writeback() 2009-09-26 00:10:40 +02:00
fs_struct.c
generic_acl.c
inode.c vfs: optimize touch_time() too 2009-09-24 07:47:27 -04:00
internal.h fs: fix overflow in sys_mount() for in-kernel calls 2009-09-24 08:40:15 -04:00
ioctl.c __generic_block_fiemap(): fix for files bigger than 4GB 2009-11-12 07:26:01 -08:00
ioprio.c
libfs.c libfs: return error code on failed attr set 2009-09-24 07:47:30 -04:00
locks.c const: make lock_manager_operations const 2009-09-22 07:17:25 -07:00
mbcache.c
mpage.c
namei.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6 2009-09-11 08:55:49 -07:00
namespace.c fs: fix overflow in sys_mount() for in-kernel calls 2009-09-24 08:40:15 -04:00
nfsctl.c vfs: nfsctl.c un-used nfsd #includes 2009-12-14 18:12:11 -05:00
no-block.c
open.c fs: change sys_truncate length parameter type 2009-09-23 09:21:05 -07:00
pipe.c fs: pipe.c null pointer dereference 2009-10-22 08:11:44 +09:00
pnode.c
pnode.h
posix_acl.c
read_write.c vfs: remove redundant position check in do_sendfile 2009-09-24 07:47:34 -04:00
read_write.h
readdir.c
select.c headers: remove sched.h from poll.h 2009-10-04 15:05:10 -07:00
seq_file.c vfs: seq_file: add helpers for data filling 2009-09-24 07:47:35 -04:00
signalfd.c
splice.c Merge branch 'for-2.6.32' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block 2009-09-14 17:55:15 -07:00
stack.c
stat.c
super.c freeze_bdev: grab active reference to frozen superblocks 2009-09-24 07:47:41 -04:00
sync.c fs/buffer.c: clean up EXPORT* macros 2009-09-23 07:39:29 -07:00
timerfd.c
utimes.c
xattr.c VFS: Factor out part of vfs_setxattr so it can be called from the SELinux hook for inode_setsecctx. 2009-09-10 10:11:22 +10:00
xattr_acl.c