Hello, here is an updated richacl patch queue, also available in git [1]. For those who might not know, richacls are an implementation of NFSv4 ACLs that cleanly integrates into the POSIX file permission model. The goal is to improve interoperability between Linux and other systems, mainly across the NFSv4 and CIFS/SMB protocols. A file system can either contain posix acls or richacls, but not both.
This patch queue includes the vfs and ext4 changes needed for local richacl support. A previous version of this patch queue was last posted about a year ago [2]; I have updated the patches to v4.0-rc1 and tried to incorporate the feedback from the previous discussion. The changes include: * Introduction of a base_acl object type so that an inode can either cache a posix acl or a richacl largely without caring which of the two kinds it is dealing with. * RCU support as for posix acls. * Various cleanups and more documentation. Things I'm not entirely happy with: * A new get_richacl inode operation is introduced. This is needed because we need to perform permission checks in contexts where the dentry of the inode to check is not available and we cannot use the getxattr inode operation. It would be nice if we could either convert the getxattr inode operation to take an inode instead, or pass the dentries down to where the get_richacl inode operation is currently used. * The base_acl code is rather ugly; maybe the previous version which was criticized wasn't so bad after all. * It would be nice if the MAY_DELETE_SELF flag could override the sticky directory check as it did in the previous version of this patch queue. I couldn't come up with a clean way of achieving that, though. Because the code has changed quite a bit since the last posting, I have removed the previous sign-offs. At this point, I would like to ask for your feedback as to what should be changed before these patches can be merged, even if merging these patches alone doesn't make a while lot of sense. I will follow up with additional pieces to the puzzle like the nfsv4 support as I get them into shape again. -- Which kind of acls an ext4 file system supports is determined by the "richacl" ext4 feature (mkfs.ext4 -O richacl or tune2fs -O richacl). The file system also needs to be mounted with the "acl" mount option, which is the default nowadays. A version of e2fsprogs with support for the "richacl" feature can be found on github [3], but the feature can also be enabled "hard" in debugfs. Note that unpatched versions of e2fsck will not check file systems with the feature enabled though. The acls themselves can be manipulated with the richacl command-line utility [4]. Some details on the permission model and examples of its use can be found at the richacl page, http://acl.bestbits.at/richacl/. [1] git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/agruen/linux-richacl.git richacl [2] http://lwn.net/Articles/596517/ [3] https://github.com/andreas-gruenbacher/e2fsprogs [4] https://github.com/andreas-gruenbacher/richacl Thanks, Andreas -- Andreas Gruenbacher (19): vfs: Minor documentation fix vfs: Shrink struct posix_acl vfs: Add IS_ACL() and IS_RICHACL() tests vfs: Add MAY_CREATE_FILE and MAY_CREATE_DIR permission flags vfs: Add MAY_DELETE_SELF and MAY_DELETE_CHILD permission flags vfs: Make the inode passed to inode_change_ok non-const vfs: Add permission flags for setting file attributes richacl: In-memory representation and helper functions richacl: Permission mapping functions richacl: Compute maximum file masks from an acl richacl: Update the file masks in chmod() richacl: Permission check algorithm richacl: Create-time inheritance richacl: Check if an acl is equivalent to a file mode richacl: Automatic Inheritance richacl: xattr mapping functions vfs: Cache base_acl objects in inodes vfs: Cache richacl in struct inode vfs: Add richacl permission checking Aneesh Kumar K.V (2): ext4: Implement rich acl for ext4 ext4: Add richacl feature flag Documentation/filesystems/porting | 8 +- Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt | 3 + drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/llite_lib.c | 2 +- fs/Kconfig | 3 + fs/Makefile | 2 + fs/attr.c | 81 ++- fs/ext4/Kconfig | 15 + fs/ext4/Makefile | 1 + fs/ext4/acl.c | 7 +- fs/ext4/acl.h | 12 +- fs/ext4/ext4.h | 6 +- fs/ext4/file.c | 6 +- fs/ext4/ialloc.c | 7 +- fs/ext4/inode.c | 10 +- fs/ext4/namei.c | 11 +- fs/ext4/richacl.c | 229 ++++++++ fs/ext4/richacl.h | 47 ++ fs/ext4/super.c | 41 +- fs/ext4/xattr.c | 6 + fs/ext4/xattr.h | 1 + fs/f2fs/acl.c | 4 +- fs/inode.c | 15 +- fs/namei.c | 108 +++- fs/posix_acl.c | 31 +- fs/richacl_base.c | 660 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ fs/richacl_inode.c | 67 +++ fs/richacl_xattr.c | 131 +++++ include/linux/fs.h | 47 +- include/linux/posix_acl.h | 12 +- include/linux/richacl.h | 329 ++++++++++++ include/linux/richacl_xattr.h | 47 ++ include/uapi/linux/fs.h | 3 +- 32 files changed, 1844 insertions(+), 108 deletions(-) create mode 100644 fs/ext4/richacl.c create mode 100644 fs/ext4/richacl.h create mode 100644 fs/richacl_base.c create mode 100644 fs/richacl_inode.c create mode 100644 fs/richacl_xattr.c create mode 100644 include/linux/richacl.h create mode 100644 include/linux/richacl_xattr.h -- 2.1.0 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
