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    r/o bind mounts: filesystem helpers for custom 'struct file's · ce8d2cdf
    Dave Hansen 提交于
    Why do we need r/o bind mounts?
    
    This feature allows a read-only view into a read-write filesystem.  In the
    process of doing that, it also provides infrastructure for keeping track of
    the number of writers to any given mount.
    
    This has a number of uses.  It allows chroots to have parts of filesystems
    writable.  It will be useful for containers in the future because users may
    have root inside a container, but should not be allowed to write to
    somefilesystems.  This also replaces patches that vserver has had out of the
    tree for several years.
    
    It allows security enhancement by making sure that parts of your filesystem
    read-only (such as when you don't trust your FTP server), when you don't want
    to have entire new filesystems mounted, or when you want atime selectively
    updated.  I've been using the following script to test that the feature is
    working as desired.  It takes a directory and makes a regular bind and a r/o
    bind mount of it.  It then performs some normal filesystem operations on the
    three directories, including ones that are expected to fail, like creating a
    file on the r/o mount.
    
    This patch:
    
    Some filesystems forego the vfs and may_open() and create their own 'struct
    file's.
    
    This patch creates a couple of helper functions which can be used by these
    filesystems, and will provide a unified place which the r/o bind mount code
    may patch.
    
    Also, rename an existing, static-scope init_file() to a less generic name.
    Signed-off-by: NDave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
    Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
    Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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