Re: (subset) [PATCH 0/14] New uid & gid mount option parsing helpers

[Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>]

On Thu, 27 Jun 2024 19:24:59 -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Multiple filesystems take uid and gid as options, and the code to
> create the ID from an integer and validate it is standard boilerplate
> that can be moved into common helper functions, so do that for
> consistency and less cut&paste.
> 
> This also helps avoid the buggy pattern noted by Seth Jenkins at
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CALxfFW4BXhEwxR0Q5LSkg-8Vb4r2MONKCcUCVioehXQKr35eHg@mail.gmail.com/
> because uid/gid parsing will fail before any assignment in most
> filesystems.
> 
> [...]

I've snatched everything but the fuse change as we should do that one in
two steps.

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Applied to the vfs.mount.api branch of the vfs/vfs.git tree.
Patches in the vfs.mount.api branch should appear in linux-next soon.

Please report any outstanding bugs that were missed during review in a
new review to the original patch series allowing us to drop it.

It's encouraged to provide Acked-bys and Reviewed-bys even though the
patch has now been applied. If possible patch trailers will be updated.

Note that commit hashes shown below are subject to change due to rebase,
trailer updates or similar. If in doubt, please check the listed branch.

tree:   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs.git
branch: vfs.mount.api

[01/14] fs_parse: add uid & gid option option parsing helpers
        https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/9f111059e725
[02/14] autofs: Convert to new uid/gid option parsing helpers
        https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/748cddf13de5
[03/14] debugfs: Convert to new uid/gid option parsing helpers
        https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/49abee5991e1
[04/14] efivarfs: Convert to new uid/gid option parsing helpers
        https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/dcffad38c767
[05/14] exfat: Convert to new uid/gid option parsing helpers
        https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/ffe1b94d7464
[06/14] ext4: Convert to new uid/gid option parsing helpers
        https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/6b5732b5ca4f
[08/14] hugetlbfs: Convert to new uid/gid option parsing helpers
        https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/eefc13247722
[09/14] isofs: Convert to new uid/gid option parsing helpers
        https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/6a265845db28
[10/14] ntfs3: Convert to new uid/gid option parsing helpers
        https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/c449cb5d1bce
[11/14] tmpfs: Convert to new uid/gid option parsing helpers
        https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/2ec07010b6a9
[12/14] smb: client: Convert to new uid/gid option parsing helpers
        https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/3229e3a5a374
[13/14] tracefs: Convert to new uid/gid option parsing helpers
        https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/b548291690d1
[14/14] vboxsf: Convert to new uid/gid option parsing helpers
        https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/da99d45bd551