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Fengdong Yu commented on HDFS-5923:
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Thanks Zhao Jing.
Another question, HDFS-5968 has serialized FsImage using Protobuf, then does
that also serialized ACL states? I don't think we've done it. because
HDFS-4685 not merged to trunk yet.
> Do not persist the ACL bit in the FsPermission
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> Key: HDFS-5923
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-5923
> Project: Hadoop HDFS
> Issue Type: Sub-task
> Components: hdfs-client, namenode, security
> Reporter: Haohui Mai
> Assignee: Haohui Mai
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> The current implementation persists and ACL bit in FSImage and editlogs.
> Moreover, the security decisions also depend on whether the bit is set.
> The problem here is that we have to maintain the implicit invariant, which is
> the ACL bit is set if and only if the the inode has AclFeature. The invariant
> has to be maintained everywhere otherwise it can lead to a security
> vulnerability. In the worst case, an attacker can toggle the bit and bypass
> the ACL checks.
> The jira proposes to treat the ACL bit as a transient bit. The bit should not
> be persisted onto the disk, neither it should affect any security decisions.
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