Revert "fs: Allow unprivileged linkat(..., AT_EMPTY_PATH) aka flink"
authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 28 Aug 2013 16:18:05 +0000 (09:18 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 28 Aug 2013 16:18:05 +0000 (09:18 -0700)
commitf0cc6ffb8ce8961db587e5072168cac0cbc25f05
tree37a56fff4bf75d279fd5424f5da6889ac5ecf5d4
parentfa8218def1b1a16f0a410e2c1c767b4738cc81fa
Revert "fs: Allow unprivileged linkat(..., AT_EMPTY_PATH) aka flink"

This reverts commit bb2314b47996491bbc5add73633905c3120b6268.

It wasn't necessarily wrong per se, but we're still busily discussing
the exact details of this all, so I'm going to revert it for now.

It's true that you can already do flink() through /proc and that flink()
isn't new.  But as Brad Spengler points out, some secure environments do
not mount proc, and flink adds a new interface that can avoid path
lookup of the source for those kinds of environments.

We may re-do this (and even mark it for stable backporting back in 3.11
and possibly earlier) once the whole discussion about the interface is done.

Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Brad Spengler <spender@grsecurity.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
fs/namei.c