[Devel] Re: [PATCH v3] SUNRPC: set desired file system root before connecting local transports

[Eric W. Biederman]

"Myklebust, Trond" <Trond.Myklebust at netapp.com> writes:

> On Tue, 2012-10-09 at 15:35 -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
>> Cc'ing Eric since I seem to recall he suggested doing it this way?

Yes.  On second look setting fs->root won't work. We need to change fs.
The problem is that by default all kernel threads share fs so changing
fs->root will have non-local consequences.

I very much believe we want if at all possible to perform a local
modification.

Changing fs isn't all that different from what devtmpfs is doing.

>> Seems OK to me, but maybe that swap_root should be in common code?  (Or
>> maybe we could use set_fs_root()?)
>> 
>> I'm assuming it's up to Trond to take this.--b.
>
> I'm reluctant to do that at this time since the original proposal was
> precisely that of export set_fs_root() and using it around the AF_LOCAL
> socket bind. That proposal was NACKed by Al Viro.

> If Al is OK with the idea of us creating a private version of
> set_fs_root, then I'd like to see an official Acked-by: that we can
> append to this commit.

Eric