[PATCH v3] nfs: Fix automount superblock LSM init problem, preventing sb sharing

David Howells dhowells at redhat.com
Thu Aug 18 13:14:37 UTC 2022


Paul Moore <paul at paul-moore.com> wrote:

> I guess my question is this: for inodes inside the superblock, does
> their superblock pointer point to the submount's superblock, or the
> parent filesystem's superblock?

They have to point to the submount superblock.  Too many things would break, I
think, if inode->i_sb pointed to the wrong place.  As far as the VFS is
concerned, apart from the way it is mounted, it's a perfectly normal
superblock.

David



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