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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. Since overlayfs is a stacking filesystem it will use the newly added posix acl api when retrieving posix acls from the relevant layer. Since overlayfs can also be mounted on top of idmapped layers. If idmapped layers are used overlayfs must take the layer's idmapping into account after it retrieved the posix acls from the relevant layer. 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] Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft) <brauner@kernel.org> |
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| file.c | ||
| inode.c | ||
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| overlayfs.h | ||
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