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    acl: add vfs_set_acl() · e4cc9163
    Christian Brauner authored
    In previous patches we implemented get and set inode operations for all
    non-stacking filesystems that support posix acls but didn't yet
    implement get and/or set acl inode operations. This specifically
    affected cifs and 9p.
    
    Now we can build a posix acl api based solely on get and set inode
    operations. We add a new vfs_set_acl() api that can be used to set posix
    acls. This finally removes all type unsafety and type conversion issues
    explained in detail in [1] that we aim to get rid of.
    
    After we finished building the vfs api we can switch stacking
    filesystems to rely on the new posix api and then finally switch the
    xattr system calls themselves to rely on the posix acl api.
    
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220801145520.1532837-1-brauner@kernel.org [1]
    Signed-off-by: default avatarChristian Brauner (Microsoft) <brauner@kernel.org>
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