[linux-cifs-client] [PATCH 00/10] mount.cifs: cleanup patches to prepare for setuid overhaul

Jeff Layton jlayton at samba.org
Tue Mar 23 04:56:33 MDT 2010


On Sun, 21 Mar 2010 15:20:17 -0400
Jeff Layton <jlayton at redhat.com> wrote:

> This patchset is simply a set of minor cleanup patches. Most of it is
> in the command-line option parsing code, but there's also some error
> handling cleanups.
> 
> These patches help lay the groundwork for the coming overhaul of
> mount.cifs to make it safer to install setuid root.
> 
> Jeff Layton (10):
>   mount.cifs: clean up parse_server
>   mount.cifs: remove unneeded uname call
>   mount.cifs: simplify command-line option parsing
>   mount.cifs: remove bogus rsize/wsize options
>   mount.cifs: remove uuid option
>   mount.cifs: make check_mountpoint a noop for non-legacy builds
>   mount.cifs: fix error handling when duplicating options string
>   mount.cifs: don't use exit(3) in main()
>   mount.cifs: don't use exit(3) in mount_cifs_usage()
>   mount.cifs: don't use exit(3) in get_password_from_file
> 
>  mount.cifs.c |  320 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------------------
>  1 files changed, 143 insertions(+), 177 deletions(-)
> 

All 10 patches committed. I'll probably do a 4.1 release soon, prior to
the setuid overhaul.

-- 
Jeff Layton <jlayton at samba.org>


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