Re: [PATCH v3] nfs: Fix automount superblock LSM init problem, preventing sb sharing

From: Paul Moore
Date: Thu Aug 18 2022 - 22:07:18 EST


On Thu, Aug 18, 2022 at 9:14 AM David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Paul Moore <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > I guess my question is this: for inodes inside the superblock, does
> > their superblock pointer point to the submount's superblock, or the
> > parent filesystem's superblock?
>
> They have to point to the submount superblock. Too many things would break, I
> think, if inode->i_sb pointed to the wrong place. As far as the VFS is
> concerned, apart from the way it is mounted, it's a perfectly normal
> superblock.

If the submount inodes point back to the submount's superblock then it
seems reasonable that the rootcontext should remain unset to me.

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