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Re: [PATCH v18 18/22] richacl: xattr mapping functions

To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v18 18/22] richacl: xattr mapping functions
From: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 18:03:11 +0100
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Linux NFS Mailing List <linux-nfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@xxxxxxx>, linux-cifs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Linux API <linux-api@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, LKML <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, XFS Developers <xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx>, Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@xxxxxxxxx>, linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, linux-ext4 <linux-ext4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Anna Schumaker <anna.schumaker@xxxxxxxxxx>
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On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 3:17 PM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> +#include <linux/richacl_xattr.h>
>> +
>> +MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
>
> what's the point given that the code isn't even modolar?

A leftover, removed now.

>> +static void
>> +fix_xattr_from_user(const char *kname, void *kvalue, size_t size)
>> +{
>> +     if (strncmp(kname, XATTR_SYSTEM_PREFIX, XATTR_SYSTEM_PREFIX_LEN))
>> +             return;
>> +     kname += XATTR_SYSTEM_PREFIX_LEN;
>> +     if (!strcmp(kname, XATTR_POSIX_ACL_ACCESS) ||
>> +         !strcmp(kname, XATTR_POSIX_ACL_DEFAULT))
>> +             posix_acl_fix_xattr_from_user(kvalue, size);
>> +}
>>
>>  /*
>>   * Extended attribute SET operations
>> @@ -329,9 +339,7 @@ setxattr(struct dentry *d, const char __user *name, 
>> const void __user *value,
>>                       error = -EFAULT;
>>                       goto out;
>>               }
>> -             if ((strcmp(kname, XATTR_NAME_POSIX_ACL_ACCESS) == 0) ||
>> -                 (strcmp(kname, XATTR_NAME_POSIX_ACL_DEFAULT) == 0))
>> -                     posix_acl_fix_xattr_from_user(kvalue, size);
>> +             fix_xattr_from_user(kname, kvalue, size);
>>       }
>>
>>       error = vfs_setxattr(d, kname, kvalue, size, flags);
>> @@ -396,6 +404,17 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(fsetxattr, int, fd, const char __user 
>> *, name,
>>       return error;
>>  }
>>
>> +static void
>> +fix_xattr_to_user(const char *kname, void *kvalue, size_t size)
>> +{
>> +     if (strncmp(kname, XATTR_SYSTEM_PREFIX, XATTR_SYSTEM_PREFIX_LEN))
>> +             return;
>> +     kname += XATTR_SYSTEM_PREFIX_LEN;
>> +     if (!strcmp(kname, XATTR_POSIX_ACL_ACCESS) ||
>> +         !strcmp(kname, XATTR_POSIX_ACL_DEFAULT))
>> +             posix_acl_fix_xattr_to_user(kvalue, size);
>> +}
>> +
>>  /*
>>   * Extended attribute GET operations
>>   */
>> @@ -426,9 +445,7 @@ getxattr(struct dentry *d, const char __user *name, void 
>> __user *value,
>>
>>       error = vfs_getxattr(d, kname, kvalue, size);
>>       if (error > 0) {
>> -             if ((strcmp(kname, XATTR_NAME_POSIX_ACL_ACCESS) == 0) ||
>> -                 (strcmp(kname, XATTR_NAME_POSIX_ACL_DEFAULT) == 0))
>> -                     posix_acl_fix_xattr_to_user(kvalue, size);
>> +             fix_xattr_to_user(kname, kvalue, size);
>
> I don't see how this is related to the rest of the patch.

Indeed, this is unrelated now. I'll split it off.

>> +++ b/include/linux/richacl_xattr.h
>
> What's the point in splitting this from the richacl.h header?
>
> Same for the uapi versions.
>
>> +struct richacl_xattr {
>> +     unsigned char   a_version;
>> +     unsigned char   a_flags;
>
> Explicit __u8 for uapi headers, please.

Okay.

Thanks,
Andreas

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