linux/fs/ecryptfs
Christian Brauner 86c261b9eb
ecryptfs: implement set acl method
The current way of setting and getting posix acls through the generic
xattr interface is error prone and type unsafe. The vfs needs to
interpret and fixup posix acls before storing or reporting it to
userspace. Various hacks exist to make this work. The code is hard to
understand and difficult to maintain in it's current form. Instead of
making this work by hacking posix acls through xattr handlers we are
building a dedicated posix acl api around the get and set inode
operations. This removes a lot of hackiness and makes the codepaths
easier to maintain. A lot of background can be found in [1].

In order to build a type safe posix api around get and set acl we need
all filesystem to implement get and set acl.

So far ecryptfs didn't implement get and set acl inode operations
because it wanted easy access to the dentry. Now that we extended the
set acl inode operation to take a dentry argument and added a new get
acl inode operation that takes a dentry argument we can let ecryptfs
implement get and set acl inode operations.

Note, until the vfs has been switched to the new posix acl api this
patch is a non-functional change.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220801145520.1532837-1-brauner@kernel.org [1]
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft) <brauner@kernel.org>
2022-10-20 10:13:30 +02:00
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crypto.c fs: ecryptfs: remove BUG_ON from crypt_scatterlist 2021-05-13 18:32:26 +02:00
debug.c ecryptfs: debug: Demote a couple of kernel-doc abuses 2021-04-19 04:42:13 +00:00
dentry.c ecryptfs: dentry: File headers are not good candidates for kernel-doc 2021-04-19 04:42:13 +00:00
ecryptfs_kernel.h ecryptfs: constify path 2022-09-01 17:40:38 -04:00
file.c whack-a-mole: constifying struct path * 2022-10-06 17:31:02 -07:00
inode.c ecryptfs: implement set acl method 2022-10-20 10:13:30 +02:00
Kconfig docs: filesystems: fix renamed references 2020-04-20 15:45:22 -06:00
keystore.c ecryptfs: keystore: Fix some kernel-doc issues and demote non-conformant headers 2021-04-19 04:42:13 +00:00
kthread.c ecryptfs: kthread: Demote file header and provide description for 'cred' 2021-04-19 04:42:13 +00:00
main.c ecryptfs: constify path 2022-09-01 17:40:38 -04:00
Makefile treewide: Add SPDX license identifier - Makefile/Kconfig 2019-05-21 10:50:46 +02:00
messaging.c eCryptfs: Use DEFINE_MUTEX() for mutex lock 2021-04-19 04:42:13 +00:00
miscdev.c ecryptfs: miscdev: File headers are not good kernel-doc candidates 2021-04-19 04:42:13 +00:00
mmap.c ecryptfs: Convert ecryptfs to read_folio 2022-05-09 16:21:45 -04:00
read_write.c ecryptfs: read_write: File headers do not make good candidates for kernel-doc 2021-04-19 04:42:13 +00:00
super.c fs: allocate inode by using alloc_inode_sb() 2022-03-22 15:57:03 -07:00