[PATCH 2/4] xfs: reject completely bogus remount options

Eric Sandeen sandeen at redhat.com
Tue Oct 15 13:13:12 CDT 2013


On 10/13/13 11:45 PM, Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 09:42:37PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>> On 10/13/13 4:52 PM, Dave Chinner wrote:
>>> On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 02:11:18PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>>>> There's a long comment about handling non-remountable
>>>> options in xfs_fs_remount, but nothing addresses the case
>>>> of completely bogus mount options at remount time, which
>>>> can lead to some severe strangeness:
>>>>
>>>> # for I in `seq 1 10`; do mount -o remount,noacl /mnt/test2; done
>>>> # for I in `seq 1 10`; do mount -o remount,badoption /mnt/test2; done

I'm going to just drop this patch for now; it seems too hacky.

really, mount option handling just needs a big rework.

-Eric



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