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Steven Rostedt (Google) 8186fff7ab tracefs/eventfs: Use root and instance inodes as default ownership
Instead of walking the dentries on mount/remount to update the gid values of
all the dentries if a gid option is specified on mount, just update the root
inode. Add .getattr, .setattr, and .permissions on the tracefs inode
operations to update the permissions of the files and directories.

For all files and directories in the top level instance:

 /sys/kernel/tracing/*

It will use the root inode as the default permissions. The inode that
represents: /sys/kernel/tracing (or wherever it is mounted).

When an instance is created:

 mkdir /sys/kernel/tracing/instance/foo

The directory "foo" and all its files and directories underneath will use
the default of what foo is when it was created. A remount of tracefs will
not affect it.

If a user were to modify the permissions of any file or directory in
tracefs, it will also no longer be modified by a change in ownership of a
remount.

The events directory, if it is in the top level instance, will use the
tracefs root inode as the default ownership for itself and all the files and
directories below it.

For the events directory in an instance ("foo"), it will keep the ownership
of what it was when it was created, and that will be used as the default
ownership for the files and directories beneath it.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/CAHk-=wjVdGkjDXBbvLn2wbZnqP4UsH46E3gqJ9m7UG6DpX2+WA@mail.gmail.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20240103215016.1e0c9811@gandalf.local.home

Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2024-01-03 21:53:55 -05:00
arch - Ignore invalid x2APIC entries in order to not waste per-CPU data 2023-11-19 13:46:17 -08:00
block blk-mq: make sure active queue usage is held for bio_integrity_prep() 2023-11-13 08:52:52 -07:00
certs This update includes the following changes: 2023-11-02 16:15:30 -10:00
crypto This push fixes a regression in ahash and hides the Kconfig sub-options for the jitter RNG. 2023-11-09 17:04:58 -08:00
Documentation - Ignore invalid x2APIC entries in order to not waste per-CPU data 2023-11-19 13:46:17 -08:00
drivers - Flush the translation service tables to prevent unpredictable behavior 2023-11-19 13:49:32 -08:00
fs tracefs/eventfs: Use root and instance inodes as default ownership 2024-01-03 21:53:55 -05:00
include Kbuild fixes for v6.7 2023-11-19 13:54:28 -08:00
init As usual, lots of singleton and doubleton patches all over the tree and 2023-11-02 20:53:31 -10:00
io_uring io_uring/fdinfo: remove need for sqpoll lock for thread/pid retrieval 2023-11-15 06:35:46 -07:00
ipc Many singleton patches against the MM code. The patch series which are 2023-11-02 19:38:47 -10:00
kernel ftrace: Fix modification of direct_function hash while in use 2023-12-30 10:07:27 -05:00
lib Zstd fixes for v6.7 2023-11-14 23:35:31 -05:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add the copyleft-next-0.3.1 license 2022-11-08 15:44:01 +01:00
mm mm: more ptep_get() conversion 2023-11-15 15:30:09 -08:00
net netfilter pull request 23-11-15 2023-11-16 11:02:52 +01:00
rust Kbuild updates for v6.7 2023-11-04 08:07:19 -10:00
samples Landlock updates for v6.7-rc1 2023-11-03 09:28:53 -10:00
scripts Kbuild fixes for v6.7 2023-11-19 13:54:28 -08:00
security + Features 2023-11-03 09:48:17 -10:00
sound sound fixes for 6.7-rc2 2023-11-17 09:05:31 -05:00
tools turbostat-2023.11.07 2023-11-18 09:09:17 -08:00
usr arch: Remove Itanium (IA-64) architecture 2023-09-11 08:13:17 +00:00
virt ARM: 2023-09-07 13:52:20 -07:00
.clang-format iommu: Add for_each_group_device() 2023-05-23 08:15:51 +02:00
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.gitignore kbuild: rpm-pkg: generate kernel.spec in rpmbuild/SPECS/ 2023-10-03 20:49:09 +09:00
.mailmap As usual, lots of singleton and doubleton patches all over the tree and 2023-11-02 20:53:31 -10:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS USB: Remove Wireless USB and UWB documentation 2023-08-09 14:17:32 +02:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS MAINTAINERS: TRACING: Add Mathieu Desnoyers as Reviewer 2023-11-22 18:37:37 -05:00
Makefile Linux 6.7-rc2 2023-11-19 15:02:14 -08:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.