This cycle we ported all filesystems to the new posix acl api. While
looking at further simplifications in this area to remove the last
remnants of the generic dummy posix acl handlers we realized that we
regressed fuse daemons that don't set FUSE_POSIX_ACL but still make use
of posix acls.
With the change to a dedicated posix acl api interacting with posix acls
doesn't go through the old xattr codepaths anymore and instead only
relies the get acl and set acl inode operations.
Before this change fuse daemons that don't set FUSE_POSIX_ACL were able
to get and set posix acl albeit with two caveats. First, that posix acls
aren't cached. And second, that they aren't used for permission checking
in the vfs.
We regressed that use-case as we currently refuse to retrieve any posix
acls if they aren't enabled via FUSE_POSIX_ACL. So older fuse daemons
would see a change in behavior.
We can restore the old behavior in multiple ways. We could change the
new posix acl api and look for a dedicated xattr handler and if we find
one prefer that over the dedicated posix acl api. That would break the
consistency of the new posix acl api so we would very much prefer not to
do that.
We could introduce a new ACL_*_CACHE sentinel that would instruct the
vfs permission checking codepath to not call into the filesystem and
ignore acls.
But a more straightforward fix for v6.2 is to do the same thing that
Overlayfs does and give fuse a separate get acl method for permission
checking. Overlayfs uses this to express different needs for vfs
permission lookup and acl based retrieval via the regular system call
path as well. Let fuse do the same for now. This way fuse can continue
to refuse to retrieve posix acls for daemons that don't set
FUSE_POSXI_ACL for permission checking while allowing a fuse server to
retrieve it via the usual system calls.
In the future, we could extend the get acl inode operation to not just
pass a simple boolean to indicate rcu lookup but instead make it a flag
argument. Then in addition to passing the information that this is an
rcu lookup to the filesystem we could also introduce a flag that tells
the filesystem that this is a request from the vfs to use these acls for
permission checking. Then fuse could refuse the get acl request for
permission checking when the daemon doesn't have FUSE_POSIX_ACL set in
the same get acl method. This would also help Overlayfs and allow us to
remove the second method for it as well.
But since that change is more invasive as we need to update the get acl
inode operation for multiple filesystems we should not do this as a fix
for v6.2. Instead we will do this for the v6.3 merge window.
Fwiw, since posix acls are now always correctly translated in the new
posix acl api we could also allow them to be used for daemons without
FUSE_POSIX_ACL that are not mounted on the host. But this is behavioral
change and again if dones should be done for v6.3. For now, let's just
restore the original behavior.
A nice side-effect of this change is that for fuse daemons with and
without FUSE_POSIX_ACL the same code is used for posix acls in a
backwards compatible way. This also means we can remove the legacy xattr
handlers completely. We've also added comments to explain the expected
behavior for daemons without FUSE_POSIX_ACL into the code.
Fixes: 318e66856d ("xattr: use posix acl api")
Signed-off-by: Seth Forshee (Digital Ocean) <sforshee@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft) <brauner@kernel.org>
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