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The current way of setting and getting posix acls through the generic xattr interface is error prone and type unsafe. The vfs needs to interpret and fixup posix acls before storing or reporting it to userspace. Various hacks exist to make this work. The code is hard to understand and difficult to maintain in it's current form. Instead of making this work by hacking posix acls through xattr handlers we are building a dedicated posix acl api around the get and set inode operations. This removes a lot of hackiness and makes the codepaths easier to maintain. A lot of background can be found in [1]. In order to build a type safe posix api around get and set acl we need all filesystem to implement get and set acl. Now that we have added get and set acl inode operations that allow easy access to the dentry we give overlayfs it's own get and set acl inode operations. The set acl inode operation is duplicates most of the ovl posix acl xattr handler. The main difference being that the set acl inode operation relies on the new posix acl api. Once the vfs has been switched over the custom posix acl xattr handler will be removed completely. Note, until the vfs has been switched to the new posix acl api this patch is a non-functional change. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220801145520.1532837-1-brauner@kernel.org [1] Acked-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft) <brauner@kernel.org> |
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| file.c | ||
| inode.c | ||
| namei.c | ||
| overlayfs.h | ||
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