From: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
To: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>, David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
kwc@citi.umich.edu, Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/52] Introduce credential record
Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 19:19:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071013181933.GJ8181@ftp.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071013181137.GA9051@thunk.org>
On Sat, Oct 13, 2007 at 02:11:37PM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> I'm going to ask a stupid question, and I probably missed something
> in the 52 patches, but.... I see how the credential is used to do
> access checks, but why does the credentials record need to passed all
> the way into block allocator? What is it used for there?
"5% are reserved for root"
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-13 18:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-12 16:05 [PATCH 00/52] Introduce credential record David Howells
2007-10-12 16:05 ` [PATCH 01/52] CRED: Introduce a COW credentials record David Howells
2007-10-15 1:53 ` David Chinner
2007-10-12 16:05 ` [PATCH 02/52] CRED: Give in_group_p() a cred pointer David Howells
2007-10-12 16:05 ` [PATCH 03/52] CRED: Pass credentials down to ext3 block allocator David Howells
2007-10-12 16:05 ` [PATCH 04/52] CRED: Pass credentials down to ext3 inode allocator David Howells
2007-10-12 16:05 ` [PATCH 05/52] CRED: Prepare TMPFS for cred passing David Howells
2007-10-12 16:05 ` [PATCH 06/52] CRED: Prepare RAMFS " David Howells
2007-10-12 16:05 ` [PATCH 07/52] CRED: Pass credentials down to ext2 block allocator David Howells
2007-10-12 16:06 ` [PATCH 08/52] CRED: Pass credentials down to ext2 inode allocator David Howells
2007-10-12 16:06 ` [PATCH 09/52] CRED: Pass credentials down to ext4 block allocator David Howells
2007-10-12 16:06 ` [PATCH 10/52] CRED: Pass credentials down to ext4 inode allocator David Howells
2007-10-12 16:06 ` [PATCH 11/52] CRED: Give the get_block() callback a credentials pointer David Howells
2007-10-12 16:06 ` [PATCH 12/52] CRED: Make mpage read functions take " David Howells
2007-10-12 16:06 ` [PATCH 13/52] CRED: Make block_prepare_write() and co " David Howells
2007-10-12 16:06 ` [PATCH 14/52] CRED: Provide a writeback credentials record David Howells
2007-10-12 16:06 ` [PATCH 15/52] CRED: Make Ext3 use the writeback credentials David Howells
2007-10-12 16:06 ` [PATCH 16/52] CRED: Pass credentials through the internals of ext3 truncation David Howells
2007-10-12 16:06 ` [PATCH 17/52] CRED: Make rpcauth_lookupcred() take a credentials pointer David Howells
2007-10-12 16:06 ` [PATCH 18/52] CRED: Make rpcauth_bindcred() " David Howells
2007-10-12 16:06 ` [PATCH 19/52] CRED: Add a credentials pointer to struct rpc_task David Howells
2007-10-12 16:07 ` [PATCH 20/52] CRED: Pass credentials into rpc_init_task() David Howells
2007-10-12 16:07 ` [PATCH 21/52] CRED: Pass credentials through the truncate() inode operation David Howells
2007-10-12 16:07 ` [PATCH 22/52] CRED: Pass credentials to nfs_setattr_update_inode() David Howells
2007-10-12 16:07 ` [PATCH 23/52] CRED: Pass credentials to the setattr() inode operation David Howells
2007-10-12 16:07 ` [PATCH 24/52] CRED: Pass credentials through inode_setattr() David Howells
2007-10-12 16:07 ` [PATCH 25/52] CRED: Give the mknod() inode op a credentials pointer David Howells
2007-10-12 16:07 ` [PATCH 26/52] CRED: Give the mkdir() " David Howells
2007-10-12 16:07 ` [PATCH 27/52] CRED: Give the create() " David Howells
2007-10-12 16:07 ` [PATCH 28/52] CRED: Give the link() " David Howells
2007-10-12 16:07 ` [PATCH 29/52] CRED: Give the unlink() " David Howells
2007-10-12 16:07 ` [PATCH 30/52] CRED: Give the rmdir() " David Howells
2007-10-12 16:07 ` [PATCH 31/52] CRED: Give the rename() " David Howells
2007-10-12 16:08 ` [PATCH 32/52] CRED: Give the symlink() " David Howells
2007-10-12 16:08 ` [PATCH 33/52] CRED: Make the get_parent() export op take a credential pointer David Howells
2007-10-12 16:08 ` [PATCH 34/52] CRED: Make Ext3 ACL set handlers pass credentials down David Howells
2007-10-12 16:08 ` [PATCH 35/52] CRED: Make the ACL set() handler take a credentials pointer David Howells
2007-10-12 16:08 ` [PATCH 36/52] CRED: Make ext3_fill_super() pass credentials down David Howells
2007-10-12 16:08 ` [PATCH 37/52] CRED: Pass credentials to the get_sb() op and various fill_super() ops David Howells
2007-10-12 16:08 ` [PATCH 38/52] CRED: Pass credentials through the quota_read() op David Howells
2007-10-12 16:08 ` [PATCH 39/52] CRED: Pass credentials through the quota_write() op David Howells
2007-10-12 16:08 ` [PATCH 40/52] CRED: Give the lookup() inode op a credentials pointer David Howells
2007-10-12 16:08 ` [PATCH 41/52] CRED: Pass credentials through d_revalidate() David Howells
2007-10-12 16:08 ` [PATCH 42/52] CRED: Pass credentials through the permission() inode op David Howells
2007-10-12 16:08 ` [PATCH 43/52] CRED: Pass credentials through the statfs() superblock op David Howells
2007-10-12 16:09 ` [PATCH 44/52] CRED: Pass credentials through the follow_link() inode op David Howells
2007-10-12 16:09 ` [PATCH 45/52] CRED: Pass credentials through the getattr() " David Howells
2007-10-12 16:09 ` [PATCH 46/52] CRED: Pass credentials through the setxattr() " David Howells
2007-10-12 16:09 ` [PATCH 47/52] CRED: Pass credentials through the xattr get() handler David Howells
2007-10-12 16:09 ` [PATCH 48/52] CRED: Pass credentials through the getxattr() inode op David Howells
2007-10-12 16:09 ` [PATCH 49/52] CRED: Pass credentials through the xattr list() handler David Howells
2007-10-12 16:09 ` [PATCH 50/52] CRED: Pass credentials through the listxattr() inode op David Howells
2007-10-12 16:09 ` [PATCH 51/52] CRED: Pass credentials through the removexattr() " David Howells
2007-10-12 16:09 ` [PATCH 52/52] CRED: Pass credentials through vfs_mkdir() David Howells
2007-10-13 18:11 ` [PATCH 00/52] Introduce credential record Theodore Tso
2007-10-13 18:19 ` Al Viro [this message]
2007-10-13 21:46 ` David Howells
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