Re: [PATCH 0/14] New uid & gid mount option parsing helpers

On Thu, Jun 27, 2024 at 07:24:59PM GMT, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Multiple filesystems take uid and gid as options, and the code to
> create the ID from an integer and validate it is standard boilerplate
> that can be moved into common helper functions, so do that for
> consistency and less cut&paste.
> 
> This also helps avoid the buggy pattern noted by Seth Jenkins at
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CALxfFW4BXhEwxR0Q5LSkg-8Vb4r2MONKCcUCVioehXQKr35eHg@mail.gmail.com/
> because uid/gid parsing will fail before any assignment in most
> filesystems.
> 
> Net effect is a bit of code removal, as well.

Thanks, this all looks good to me. I'll have one comment about the fuse
patch.