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    fs: pass dentry to set acl method · 138060ba
    Christian Brauner authored
    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].
    
    Since some filesystem rely on the dentry being available to them when
    setting posix acls (e.g., 9p and cifs) they cannot rely on set acl inode
    operation. But since ->set_acl() is required in order to use the generic
    posix acl xattr handlers filesystems that do not implement this inode
    operation cannot use the handler and need to implement their own
    dedicated posix acl handlers.
    
    Update the ->set_acl() inode method to take a dentry argument. This
    allows all filesystems to rely on ->set_acl().
    
    As far as I can tell all codepaths can be switched to rely on the dentry
    instead of just the inode. Note that the original motivation for passing
    the dentry separate from the inode instead of just the dentry in the
    xattr handlers was because of security modules that call
    security_d_instantiate(). This hook is called during
    d_instantiate_new(), d_add(), __d_instantiate_anon(), and
    d_splice_alias() to initialize the inode's security context and possibly
    to set security.* xattrs. Since this only affects security.* xattrs this
    is completely irrelevant for posix acls.
    
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220801145520.1532837-1-brauner@kernel.org [1]
    Reviewed-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarChristian Brauner (Microsoft) <brauner@kernel.org>
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