Re: [PATCH] btrfs-progs: better document btrfs receive security

2017-02-08 Thread David Sterba
On Wed, Feb 08, 2017 at 07:29:22AM -0500, Austin S. Hemmelgarn wrote: > On 2017-02-07 13:27, David Sterba wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 03, 2017 at 08:48:58AM -0500, Austin S. Hemmelgarn wrote: > >> This adds some extra documentation to the btrfs-receive manpage that > >> explains some of the security rel

Re: [PATCH] btrfs-progs: better document btrfs receive security

2017-02-08 Thread Austin S. Hemmelgarn
On 2017-02-07 13:27, David Sterba wrote: On Fri, Feb 03, 2017 at 08:48:58AM -0500, Austin S. Hemmelgarn wrote: This adds some extra documentation to the btrfs-receive manpage that explains some of the security related aspects of btrfs-receive. The first part covers the fact that the subvolume b

Re: [PATCH] btrfs-progs: better document btrfs receive security

2017-02-07 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Fri, 3 Feb 2017 08:48:58 -0500 schrieb "Austin S. Hemmelgarn" : > +that an incremental send streams actually makes sense, and it is thus > +possible for a specially crafted send stream to create a subvolume Sorry for the noise... Another one: shouldn't it say "sent stream" (minus s) and "sent

Re: [PATCH] btrfs-progs: better document btrfs receive security

2017-02-07 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Fri, 3 Feb 2017 08:48:58 -0500 schrieb "Austin S. Hemmelgarn" : > +user who is running receive, and then move then into the final > destination Typo? s/then/them/? -- Regards, Kai Replies to list-only preferred. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send t

Re: [PATCH] btrfs-progs: better document btrfs receive security

2017-02-07 Thread David Sterba
On Fri, Feb 03, 2017 at 08:48:58AM -0500, Austin S. Hemmelgarn wrote: > This adds some extra documentation to the btrfs-receive manpage that > explains some of the security related aspects of btrfs-receive. The > first part covers the fact that the subvolume being received is writable > until the

[PATCH] btrfs-progs: better document btrfs receive security

2017-02-03 Thread Austin S. Hemmelgarn
This adds some extra documentation to the btrfs-receive manpage that explains some of the security related aspects of btrfs-receive. The first part covers the fact that the subvolume being received is writable until the receive finishes, and the second covers the current lack of sanity checking of