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From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields-uC3wQj2KruNg9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org>
To: "Aneesh Kumar K.V"
	<aneesh.kumar-23VcF4HTsmIX0ybBhKVfKdBPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org>
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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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  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-10-24  9:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ 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
     [not found] ` <1319391835-5829-1-git-send-email-aneesh.kumar-23VcF4HTsmIX0ybBhKVfKdBPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org>
2011-10-24  9:17   ` J. Bruce Fields [this message]
     [not found]     ` <20111024091716.GA1109-uC3wQj2KruNg9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org>
2011-10-24  9:49       ` [PATCH -V8 00/26] New ACL format for better NFSv4 acl interoperability Christoph Hellwig
     [not found]         ` <20111024094910.GA28693-wEGCiKHe2LqWVfeAwA7xHQ@public.gmane.org>
2011-10-24 11:07           ` J. Bruce Fields
     [not found]             ` <20111024110759.GA1863-uC3wQj2KruNg9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org>
2011-10-25 13:30               ` J. Bruce Fields
2011-10-24 11:35         ` Aneesh Kumar K.V

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