From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [git pull] gfs2 setattr patches
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2021 19:46:53 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YTpkrfaCF8aTRIon@zeniv-ca.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHk-=wjOch3=4Nh4tmiAO9UYJZVEeO0UUq8Hegh3JK+pnM9Upg@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Sep 09, 2021 at 12:41:33PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 8, 2021 at 9:27 PM Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> >
> > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs.git work.gfs2
> >
> > for you to fetch changes up to d75b9fa053e4cd278281386d860c26fdbfbe9d03:
> >
> > gfs2: Switch to may_setattr in gfs2_setattr (2021-08-13 00:41:05 -0400)
>
> Explanation for what this series actually does?
>
> I can see the shortlog, I can look at the commits, but I really want a
> summary in the pull request.
Basically, gfs2 has redo the permission checks after it grabs a cluster lock,
and they want to have that doable by call of shared helper, rather than
open-coding those checks. Looks reasonable to me...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-09 19:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-09 4:26 [git pull] gfs2 setattr patches Al Viro
2021-09-09 19:41 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-09-09 19:46 ` Al Viro [this message]
2021-09-09 20:04 ` pr-tracker-bot
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