linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 12/18] ocfs2: use generic posix ACL infrastructure

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Message-ID: <20131203104854.GA3223@infradead.org>
Date:	Tue, 3 Dec 2013 02:48:54 -0800
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Cc:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, linux-f2fs-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org, Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@...e.com>,
	Joel Becker <jlbec@...lplan.org>,
	reiserfs-devel@...r.kernel.org, xfs@....sgi.com,
	jfs-discussion@...ts.sourceforge.net, cluster-devel@...hat.com,
	linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/18] ocfs2: use generic posix ACL infrastructure

On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 12:00:07AM +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
>   Hum, this changes the cluster locking. Previously ocfs2_acl_get() used
> from ocfs2_acl_chmod() grabbed cluster wide inode lock. Now getting of ACL
> isn't protected by the inode lock. That being said the cluster locking
> around setattr looks fishy anyway - if two processes on different
> nodes are changing attributes of the same file, changing ACLs post fact
> after dropping inode lock could cause interesting effects. Also I'm
> wondering how inode_change_ok() can ever be safe without holding inode
> lock... Until we grab that other node is free to change e.g. owner of the
> inode thus leading even to security implications. But maybe I'm missing
> something. Mark, Joel?

Hmm, indeed.  How does ocfs2_iop_get_acl get away without that lock?

Btw, ocfs2 changes will need careful testing as I couldn't find any easy
way to run xfstests on ocfs2 out of the box.

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