linux/fs/fuse
Christian Brauner 138060ba92
fs: pass dentry to set acl method
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].

Since some filesystem rely on the dentry being available to them when
setting posix acls (e.g., 9p and cifs) they cannot rely on set acl inode
operation. But since ->set_acl() is required in order to use the generic
posix acl xattr handlers filesystems that do not implement this inode
operation cannot use the handler and need to implement their own
dedicated posix acl handlers.

Update the ->set_acl() inode method to take a dentry argument. This
allows all filesystems to rely on ->set_acl().

As far as I can tell all codepaths can be switched to rely on the dentry
instead of just the inode. Note that the original motivation for passing
the dentry separate from the inode instead of just the dentry in the
xattr handlers was because of security modules that call
security_d_instantiate(). This hook is called during
d_instantiate_new(), d_add(), __d_instantiate_anon(), and
d_splice_alias() to initialize the inode's security context and possibly
to set security.* xattrs. Since this only affects security.* xattrs this
is completely irrelevant for posix acls.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220801145520.1532837-1-brauner@kernel.org [1]
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft) <brauner@kernel.org>
2022-10-19 12:55:42 +02:00
..
acl.c fs: pass dentry to set acl method 2022-10-19 12:55:42 +02:00
control.c fuse: Remove the control interface for virtio-fs 2022-07-21 16:06:19 +02:00
cuse.c cuse: simplify refcount 2021-04-14 10:40:58 +02:00
dax.c fuse: avoid unnecessary spinlock bump 2022-07-21 16:02:45 +02:00
dev.c mm: multi-gen LRU: groundwork 2022-09-26 19:46:09 -07:00
dir.c fuse: implement ->tmpfile() 2022-09-24 07:00:00 +02:00
file.c iov_iter stuff, part 2, rebased 2022-08-08 20:04:35 -07:00
fuse_i.h fs: pass dentry to set acl method 2022-10-19 12:55:42 +02:00
inode.c fuse: retire block-device-based superblock on force unmount 2022-07-27 11:30:31 +02:00
ioctl.c fuse: ioctl: translate ENOSYS 2022-07-21 16:06:18 +02:00
Kconfig dax: remove CONFIG_DAX_DRIVER 2021-12-04 08:58:51 -08:00
Makefile fuse: move ioctl to separate source file 2021-04-12 15:04:30 +02:00
readdir.c fuse: only update necessary attributes 2021-10-28 09:45:33 +02:00
virtio_fs.c virtio_fs: Modify format for virtio_fs_direct_access 2022-07-26 10:38:58 +02:00
xattr.c fuse: move fuse_invalidate_attr() into fuse_update_ctime() 2021-10-22 17:03:01 +02:00