linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] ext4: check the acl's validity before setting

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Message-ID: <5343BA84.3090905@huawei.com>
Date:	Tue, 8 Apr 2014 16:59:48 +0800
From:	ZhangZhen <zhenzhang.zhang@...wei.com>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
CC:	<tytso@....edu>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
	<linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: check the acl's validity before setting

On 2014/4/8 13:46, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 10:02:50AM +0800, ZhangZhen wrote:
>> Before setting the acl, call posix_acl_valid() to check if it is
>> valid or not.
> 
> Why? posix_acl_xattr_set already does that for you, and it's the only
> way to feed in an ACL from userspace.
> 
> 
> 
Hi Hellwig,

You are right, this patch is useless. I'm sorry for this spam mail.

But btrfs_set_acl checks the validity of the ACL too. Should we delete it?
Another choice is we can check the validity in every fs tree, and delete the
check from posix_acl_xattr_set.

How should we do?

Thanks!


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