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From: David Howells <dhowells-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
To: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields-uC3wQj2KruNg9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org>
Cc: dhowells-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org,
	"Aneesh Kumar K.V"
	<aneesh.kumar-23VcF4HTsmIX0ybBhKVfKdBPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org>,
	agruen-DgEjT+Ai2ygdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org,
	akpm-de/tnXTf+JLsfHDXvbKv3WD2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org,
	linux-fsdevel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org,
	linux-nfs-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org,
	linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -V6 00/26] New ACL format for better NFSv4 acl interoperability
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 23:27:02 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8331.1315866422@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110912222306.GB17483-uC3wQj2KruNg9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org>

J. Bruce Fields <bfields-uC3wQj2KruNg9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org> wrote:

> Probably the documentation belongs in man pages.  Which I think they've
> done, but alas the git repos (on kernel.org) aren't accesible right
> now....

There is also an in-kernel API that filesystems have to deal with if they want
to support richacls.  See the ext4 patches...  There should probably be one
document describing how to 'use' ACLs of all kinds from a filesystem internals
point of view somewhere under Documentation/filesystems/

David
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-09-12 22:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 79+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-05 17:25 [PATCH -V6 00/26] New ACL format for better NFSv4 acl interoperability Aneesh Kumar K.V
2011-09-05 17:25 ` [PATCH -V6 01/26] vfs: Indicate that the permission functions take all the MAY_* flags Aneesh Kumar K.V
2011-09-05 17:25 ` [PATCH -V6 02/26] vfs: Add hex format for MAY_* flag values Aneesh Kumar K.V
2011-09-05 17:25 ` [PATCH -V6 03/26] vfs: Pass all mask flags down to iop->check_acl Aneesh Kumar K.V
2011-09-05 17:25 ` [PATCH -V6 07/26] vfs: Optimize out IS_RICHACL() if CONFIG_FS_RICHACL is not defined Aneesh Kumar K.V
2011-09-05 17:25 ` [PATCH -V6 09/26] vfs: Add delete child and delete self permission flags Aneesh Kumar K.V
     [not found]   ` <1315243548-18664-10-git-send-email-aneesh.kumar-23VcF4HTsmIX0ybBhKVfKdBPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org>
2011-09-07 20:39     ` J. Bruce Fields
2011-09-08  9:30       ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2011-09-08 20:07         ` J. Bruce Fields
2011-09-08 22:02           ` J. Bruce Fields
     [not found]             ` <20110908220246.GD17215-uC3wQj2KruNg9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org>
2011-09-09  5:19               ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2011-09-09  5:25                 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2011-09-09 12:02                   ` J. Bruce Fields
     [not found]           ` <20110908200754.GB17215-uC3wQj2KruNg9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org>
2011-09-09  5:14             ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2011-09-09 10:12     ` David Howells
     [not found]       ` <22928.1315563126-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2011-09-09 11:55         ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2011-09-05 17:25 ` [PATCH -V6 10/26] vfs: Make the inode passed to inode_change_ok non-const Aneesh Kumar K.V
2011-09-07 20:43   ` J. Bruce Fields
     [not found]     ` <20110907204321.GF8074-uC3wQj2KruNg9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org>
2011-09-08  9:32       ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2011-09-05 17:25 ` [PATCH -V6 12/26] vfs: Make acl_permission_check() work for richacls Aneesh Kumar K.V
2011-09-05 17:25 ` [PATCH -V6 13/26] richacl: In-memory representation and helper functions Aneesh Kumar K.V
2011-09-05 17:25 ` [PATCH -V6 16/26] richacl: Update the file masks in chmod() Aneesh Kumar K.V
2011-09-05 17:25 ` [PATCH -V6 17/26] richacl: Permission check algorithm Aneesh Kumar K.V
     [not found]   ` <1315243548-18664-18-git-send-email-aneesh.kumar-23VcF4HTsmIX0ybBhKVfKdBPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org>
2011-09-07 21:50     ` J. Bruce Fields
     [not found]       ` <20110907215022.GI8074-uC3wQj2KruNg9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org>
2011-09-08 10:34         ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2011-09-05 17:25 ` [PATCH -V6 18/26] richacl: Create-time inheritance Aneesh Kumar K.V
2011-09-05 17:25 ` [PATCH -V6 20/26] richacl: Automatic Inheritance Aneesh Kumar K.V
     [not found]   ` <1315243548-18664-21-git-send-email-aneesh.kumar-23VcF4HTsmIX0ybBhKVfKdBPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org>
2011-09-07 21:56     ` J. Bruce Fields
2011-09-05 17:25 ` [PATCH -V6 21/26] richacl: xattr mapping functions Aneesh Kumar K.V
2011-09-05 17:25 ` [PATCH -V6 22/26] vfs: Cache richacl in struct inode Aneesh Kumar K.V
2011-09-05 17:25 ` [PATCH -V6 24/26] ext4: Use IS_POSIXACL() to check for POSIX ACL support Aneesh Kumar K.V
2011-09-05 17:25 ` [PATCH -V6 25/26] ext4: Implement rich acl for ext4 Aneesh Kumar K.V
     [not found] ` <1315243548-18664-1-git-send-email-aneesh.kumar-23VcF4HTsmIX0ybBhKVfKdBPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org>
2011-09-05 17:25   ` [PATCH -V6 04/26] vfs: Add a comment to inode_permission() Aneesh Kumar K.V
2011-09-05 17:25   ` [PATCH -V6 05/26] vfs: Add generic IS_ACL() test for acl support Aneesh Kumar K.V
2011-09-05 17:25   ` [PATCH -V6 06/26] vfs: Add IS_RICHACL() test for richacl support Aneesh Kumar K.V
2011-09-05 17:25   ` [PATCH -V6 08/26] vfs: Add new file and directory create permission flags Aneesh Kumar K.V
2011-09-05 17:25   ` [PATCH -V6 11/26] vfs: Add permission flags for setting file attributes Aneesh Kumar K.V
2011-09-07 20:55     ` J. Bruce Fields
2011-09-08  9:36       ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2011-09-08 20:08         ` J. Bruce Fields
2011-09-05 17:25   ` [PATCH -V6 14/26] richacl: Permission mapping functions Aneesh Kumar K.V
2011-09-07 21:24     ` J. Bruce Fields
2011-09-08 10:27       ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2011-09-05 17:25   ` [PATCH -V6 15/26] richacl: Compute maximum file masks from an acl Aneesh Kumar K.V
2011-09-05 17:25   ` [PATCH -V6 19/26] richacl: Check if an acl is equivalent to a file mode Aneesh Kumar K.V
2011-09-05 17:25   ` [PATCH -V6 23/26] vfs: Add richacl permission check Aneesh Kumar K.V
2011-09-05 17:25   ` [PATCH -V6 26/26] ext4: Add temporary richacl mount option for ext4 Aneesh Kumar K.V
2011-09-05 22:42   ` [PATCH -V6 00/26] New ACL format for better NFSv4 acl interoperability Casey Schaufler
     [not found]     ` <4E655049.6060507-iSGtlc1asvQWG2LlvL+J4A@public.gmane.org>
2011-09-08  0:46       ` Valdis.Kletnieks-PjAqaU27lzQ
2011-09-12 21:34         ` Casey Schaufler
2011-09-12 22:20           ` J. Bruce Fields
     [not found]             ` <20110912222014.GA17483-uC3wQj2KruNg9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org>
2011-09-12 22:38               ` Casey Schaufler
2011-09-12 22:43                 ` J. Bruce Fields
2011-09-12 23:23                   ` Casey Schaufler
     [not found]                     ` <4E6E946C.5050706-iSGtlc1asvQWG2LlvL+J4A@public.gmane.org>
2011-09-12 23:53                       ` J. Bruce Fields
     [not found]                 ` <4E6E89E0.4010406-iSGtlc1asvQWG2LlvL+J4A@public.gmane.org>
2011-09-13  4:41                   ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2011-09-13 18:12           ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2011-09-09 12:48   ` David Howells
2011-09-06  9:41 ` Steven Whitehouse
2011-09-06 13:58   ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2011-09-07 20:18     ` J. Bruce Fields
2011-09-07 23:44 ` J. Bruce Fields
     [not found]   ` <20110907234408.GA10982-uC3wQj2KruNg9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org>
2011-09-08 10:40     ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2011-09-09 10:02 ` [PATCH -V6 08/26] vfs: Add new file and directory create permission flags David Howells
2011-09-09 11:59   ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2011-09-09 10:36 ` [PATCH -V6 14/26] richacl: Permission mapping functions David Howells
     [not found]   ` <23273.1315564570-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2011-09-09 11:54     ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
     [not found] ` <1315243548-18664-19-git-send-email-aneesh.kumar-23VcF4HTsmIX0ybBhKVfKdBPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org>
2011-09-09 12:14   ` [PATCH -V6 18/26] richacl: Create-time inheritance David Howells
     [not found] ` <1315243548-18664-23-git-send-email-aneesh.kumar-23VcF4HTsmIX0ybBhKVfKdBPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org>
2011-09-09 12:37   ` [PATCH -V6 22/26] vfs: Cache richacl in struct inode David Howells
2011-09-09 12:45 ` [PATCH -V6 25/26] ext4: Implement rich acl for ext4 David Howells
     [not found]   ` <25112.1315572358-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2011-09-13  4:25     ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
     [not found] ` <25175.1315572498-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2011-09-09 14:03   ` [PATCH -V6 00/26] New ACL format for better NFSv4 acl interoperability David Howells
     [not found]     ` <26458.1315577016-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2011-09-12 22:23       ` J. Bruce Fields
     [not found]     ` <20110912222306.GB17483-uC3wQj2KruNg9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org>
2011-09-12 22:27       ` David Howells [this message]
2011-09-13  5:07         ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2011-09-21  7:30 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
     [not found]   ` <878vpi73oc.fsf-6yE53ggjAfyqSkle7U1LjlaTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org>
2011-09-21 19:45     ` J. Bruce Fields
     [not found]       ` <20110921194531.GB23634-uC3wQj2KruNg9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org>
2011-09-22  5:31         ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
     [not found]           ` <87vcsl5eiq.fsf-6yE53ggjAfyqSkle7U1LjlaTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org>
2011-09-22 12:01             ` J. Bruce Fields

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