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From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] fs: take the ACL checks to common code
Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2011 17:15:16 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110723161516.GH24703@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110723160000.GA11196@lst.de>

On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 06:00:00PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 08:56:12AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 8:37 AM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> wrote:
> > >
> > > Replace the ->check_acl method with a ->get_acl method that simply reads an
> > > ACL from disk after having a cache miss. ?This means we can replace the ACL
> > > checking boilerplate code with a single implementation in namei.c.
> > 
> > Hmm. If we just had a rule for locking (i_mutex?), we could make the
> > cache update be in namei.c too..
> 
> Yes, and if we add a ->set_acl we can take most of the existing boilerplate
> code completely into posix_acl.c.  I'll see if I can do something like that
> for v3.2.
 
As for ->set_acl(), how are you going to deal with things like ext3_init_acl(),
where we get transaction handle as argument and pass it down to ext3_set_acl()?
Or the things like e.g. gfs2_set_mode()...

  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-23 16:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-23 15:36 [PATCH 0/4] more ACL updates Christoph Hellwig
2011-07-23 15:36 ` [PATCH 1/4] 9p: do no return 0 from ->check_acl without actually checking Christoph Hellwig
2011-07-23 15:49   ` Al Viro
2011-07-25  6:40   ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2011-07-23 15:36 ` [PATCH 2/4] xfs: cache negative ACLs if there is no attribute fork Christoph Hellwig
2011-07-23 15:37 ` [PATCH 3/4] reiserfs: cache negative ACLs for v1 stat format Christoph Hellwig
2011-07-23 15:37 ` [PATCH 4/4] fs: take the ACL checks to common code Christoph Hellwig
2011-07-23 15:56   ` Linus Torvalds
2011-07-23 16:00     ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-07-23 16:15       ` Al Viro [this message]
2011-07-24 13:07         ` Christoph Hellwig

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