[Dazuko-devel] [PATCH] Use d_path if __d_path is not safe

[Tikka, Sami]

Hello!

As we discussed 2 months ago, dazuko could use d_path when running on an
Linux 2.6 SMP system and __d_path is not exported. I have now implemented
that change as you specified (behaviour changes only for Linux 2.6 SMP
chrooted processes). [see attached email]

I have uploaded the patch to Savannah:
https://savannah.nongnu.org/patch/index.php?func=detailitem&item_id=4602

I hope you find it to your liking and include it into Dazuko source.

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> Re: [Dazuko-devel] __d_path export and SMP safeness
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> Tue, 6 Sep 2005 16:45:47 +0200
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> Tikka, Sami wrote:
> > Dazuko could use the exported d_path. Then the filename the driver reports
> > will be relative to the current root of the process that made the file
> > access. But this is not a problem. The process which gets the dazuko events
> > can easily check readlink /proc/PID/root and prepend that to the filename
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> > the event.
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> > What do you think, John? Could you make dazuko use d_path on Linux?
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> Well, this would double the amount of user/kernel switches, which would be a
> performance hit. It would also require that the /proc system is available.
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> But yes, this would work.
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> If I were to implement this for Linux 2.6 SMP (the only affected kernels),
> then I would change Dazuko to send a filename without the beginning "/" for
> files in chroot'd environments. This would signal the user application that
> it needed to do a lookup for the full path. This would reduce the extra
> overhead to *only* file accesses in a chroot environment.
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> With DazukoFS we won't have this problem because we won't need __d_path().
> But we can use this hack until DazukoFS is available.
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> This hack would only be required for Linux 2.6 SMP kernels that do not
> export __d_path().
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> John Ogness
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