From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
To: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: agruen@kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, dhowells@redhat.com,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -V8 00/26] New ACL format for better NFSv4 acl interoperability
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 05:17:16 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111024091716.GA1109@fieldses.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1319391835-5829-1-git-send-email-aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> How do we push these changes to Linus tree ? Andrew, Viro, any comment
> on how we can get this merged upstream ?
Andrew, it sounds like you might be willing to shepherd these through?
Let us know what you'd need.
--b.
On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 11:13:29PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The following set of patches implements VFS and ext4 changes needed to implement
> a new acl model for linux. Rich ACLs are an implementation of NFSv4 ACLs,
> extended by file masks to fit into the standard POSIX file permission model.
> They are designed to work seamlessly locally as well as across the NFSv4 and
> CIFS/SMB2 network file system protocols.
>
> A user-space utility for displaying and changing richacls is available at [4]
> (a number of examples can be found at http://acl.bestbits.at/richacl/examples.html).
>
> [4] git://github.com/kvaneesh/richacl-tools.git master
>
> To test richacl on ext4 use tune2fs -O richacl to enable richacl feature and mount
> the file system using -o acl mount option.
>
> More details regarding richacl can be found at
> http://acl.bestbits.at/richacl/
>
> Changes from v7:
> a) Update patches based on review comments.
> b) Add acked-by:
> c) Change the richacl xattr format based on review feedback.
>
> git repository With all the patches can be found at
> git://github.com/kvaneesh/linux.git richacl
>
> IMHO the patches are ready to be merged upstream.
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From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields-uC3wQj2KruNg9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org>
To: "Aneesh Kumar K.V"
<aneesh.kumar-23VcF4HTsmIX0ybBhKVfKdBPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org>
Cc: agruen-DgEjT+Ai2ygdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org,
akpm-de/tnXTf+JLsfHDXvbKv3WD2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org,
viro-RmSDqhL/yNMiFSDQTTA3OLVCufUGDwFn@public.gmane.org,
dhowells-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org,
linux-fsdevel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org,
linux-nfs-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org,
linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -V8 00/26] New ACL format for better NFSv4 acl interoperability
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 05:17:16 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111024091716.GA1109@fieldses.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1319391835-5829-1-git-send-email-aneesh.kumar-23VcF4HTsmIX0ybBhKVfKdBPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org>
> How do we push these changes to Linus tree ? Andrew, Viro, any comment
> on how we can get this merged upstream ?
Andrew, it sounds like you might be willing to shepherd these through?
Let us know what you'd need.
--b.
On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 11:13:29PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The following set of patches implements VFS and ext4 changes needed to implement
> a new acl model for linux. Rich ACLs are an implementation of NFSv4 ACLs,
> extended by file masks to fit into the standard POSIX file permission model.
> They are designed to work seamlessly locally as well as across the NFSv4 and
> CIFS/SMB2 network file system protocols.
>
> A user-space utility for displaying and changing richacls is available at [4]
> (a number of examples can be found at http://acl.bestbits.at/richacl/examples.html).
>
> [4] git://github.com/kvaneesh/richacl-tools.git master
>
> To test richacl on ext4 use tune2fs -O richacl to enable richacl feature and mount
> the file system using -o acl mount option.
>
> More details regarding richacl can be found at
> http://acl.bestbits.at/richacl/
>
> Changes from v7:
> a) Update patches based on review comments.
> b) Add acked-by:
> c) Change the richacl xattr format based on review feedback.
>
> git repository With all the patches can be found at
> git://github.com/kvaneesh/linux.git richacl
>
> IMHO the patches are ready to be merged upstream.
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Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-23 17:43 [PATCH -V8 00/26] New ACL format for better NFSv4 acl interoperability Aneesh Kumar K.V
2011-10-23 17:43 ` [PATCH -V8 01/26] vfs: Indicate that the permission functions take all the MAY_* flags Aneesh Kumar K.V
2011-10-23 17:43 ` [PATCH -V8 02/26] vfs: Add hex format for MAY_* flag values Aneesh Kumar K.V
2011-10-23 17:43 ` [PATCH -V8 03/26] vfs: Pass all mask flags down to iop->check_acl Aneesh Kumar K.V
2011-10-23 17:43 ` [PATCH -V8 04/26] vfs: Add a comment to inode_permission() Aneesh Kumar K.V
2011-10-23 17:43 ` [PATCH -V8 05/26] vfs: Add generic IS_ACL() test for acl support Aneesh Kumar K.V
2011-10-23 17:43 ` [PATCH -V8 06/26] vfs: Add IS_RICHACL() test for richacl support Aneesh Kumar K.V
2011-10-23 17:43 ` [PATCH -V8 07/26] vfs: Optimize out IS_RICHACL() if CONFIG_FS_RICHACL is not defined Aneesh Kumar K.V
2011-10-23 17:43 ` [PATCH -V8 08/26] vfs: Add new file and directory create permission flags Aneesh Kumar K.V
2011-10-23 17:43 ` [PATCH -V8 09/26] vfs: Add delete child and delete self " Aneesh Kumar K.V
2011-10-23 17:43 ` [PATCH -V8 10/26] vfs: Make the inode passed to inode_change_ok non-const Aneesh Kumar K.V
2011-10-23 17:43 ` [PATCH -V8 11/26] vfs: Add permission flags for setting file attributes Aneesh Kumar K.V
2011-10-23 17:43 ` [PATCH -V8 12/26] vfs: Make acl_permission_check() work for richacls Aneesh Kumar K.V
2011-10-23 17:43 ` [PATCH -V8 13/26] richacl: In-memory representation and helper functions Aneesh Kumar K.V
2011-10-23 17:43 ` [PATCH -V8 14/26] richacl: Permission mapping functions Aneesh Kumar K.V
2011-10-23 17:43 ` [PATCH -V8 15/26] richacl: Compute maximum file masks from an acl Aneesh Kumar K.V
2011-10-23 17:43 ` [PATCH -V8 16/26] richacl: Update the file masks in chmod() Aneesh Kumar K.V
2011-10-23 17:43 ` [PATCH -V8 17/26] richacl: Permission check algorithm Aneesh Kumar K.V
2011-10-23 17:43 ` [PATCH -V8 18/26] richacl: Create-time inheritance Aneesh Kumar K.V
2011-10-23 17:43 ` [PATCH -V8 19/26] richacl: Check if an acl is equivalent to a file mode Aneesh Kumar K.V
2011-10-23 17:43 ` [PATCH -V8 20/26] richacl: Automatic Inheritance Aneesh Kumar K.V
2011-10-23 17:43 ` [PATCH -V8 21/26] richacl: xattr mapping functions Aneesh Kumar K.V
2011-10-23 17:43 ` [PATCH -V8 22/26] vfs: Cache richacl in struct inode Aneesh Kumar K.V
2011-10-23 17:43 ` [PATCH -V8 23/26] vfs: Add richacl permission check Aneesh Kumar K.V
2011-10-23 17:43 ` [PATCH -V8 24/26] ext4: Use IS_POSIXACL() to check for POSIX ACL support Aneesh Kumar K.V
2011-10-23 17:43 ` [PATCH -V8 25/26] ext4: Implement rich acl for ext4 Aneesh Kumar K.V
2011-10-23 17:43 ` [PATCH -V8 26/26] ext4: Add Ext4 compat richacl feature flag Aneesh Kumar K.V
2011-10-24 9:17 ` J. Bruce Fields [this message]
2011-10-24 9:17 ` [PATCH -V8 00/26] New ACL format for better NFSv4 acl interoperability J. Bruce Fields
2011-10-24 9:49 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-10-24 9:49 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-10-24 11:07 ` J. Bruce Fields
2011-10-24 11:07 ` J. Bruce Fields
2011-10-25 13:30 ` J. Bruce Fields
2011-10-25 13:30 ` J. Bruce Fields
2011-10-24 11:35 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
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