Followup to: <20000601235558.A188@bug.ucw.cz>
By author: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Hi!
>
> > > That will surely confuse hell out of the backup utility. It is
> > > probably going to confuse autoclean.
> >
> > And you allow your backups freely span the filesystem boundaries? I've
> > learnt not to do it _really_ hard way. Even harder was the autocleaner -
> > ever went "uh, /mnt is already busy, let's mount it for an hour under
> > /tmp/foo... Oh, FSCK! Let's hope these tapes are alive and there goes
> > my fscking weekend..."?
>
> It is bad to allow backups over fs boundaries; but it is harmless if
> you do not do "mistake". Oops. It used to be harmless. Now it is
> security hole. If you *really* want to have that mount in 2.4.0, let
> me know, and I'll make nice bugtraq announcement. Then we'll see how
> many holes this added.
>
> Pavel
It's worse than that. fs boundaries are typically detected by st_dev
changing, but that is not necessarily the case if your bind goes from
one part of one filesystem to another. Suddenly your bind is
undetectable to all existing software.
-hpa
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