Re: [f2fs-dev] [PATCH v3 00/10] acl: drop posix acl handlers from xattr handlers
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Hello: This patch was applied to jaegeuk/f2fs.git (dev) by Christian Brauner (Microsoft) <[email protected]>: On Wed, 01 Feb 2023 14:14:51 +0100 you wrote: > Hey everyone, > > After we finished the introduction of the new posix acl api last cycle > we still left the generic POSIX ACL xattr handlers around in the > filesystems xattr handlers for two reasons: > > (1) Because a few filesystems rely on the ->list() method of the generic > POSIX ACL xattr handlers in their ->listxattr() inode operation. > (2) POSIX ACLs are only available if IOP_XATTR is raised. The IOP_XATTR > flag is raised in inode_init_always() based on whether the > sb->s_xattr pointer is non-NULL. IOW, the registered xattr handlers > of the filesystem are used to raise IOP_XATTR. > If we were to remove the generic POSIX ACL xattr handlers from all > filesystems we would risk regressing filesystems that only implement > POSIX ACL support and no other xattrs (nfs3 comes to mind). > > [...] Here is the summary with links: - [f2fs-dev,v3,05/10] fs: simplify ->listxattr() implementation https://git.kernel.org/jaegeuk/f2fs/c/a5488f29835c You are awesome, thank you! -- Deet-doot-dot, I am a bot. https://korg.docs.kernel.org/patchwork/pwbot.html