linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH v10 38/46] richacl: Add support for unmapped identifiers

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Date:	Mon, 12 Oct 2015 11:22:00 +1100
From:	Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>
To:	Andreas Gruenbacher <andreas.gruenbacher@...il.com>
Cc:	Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>,
	Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@...ger.ca>,
	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>,
	Jeff Layton <jlayton@...chiereds.net>,
	Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@...marydata.com>,
	Anna Schumaker <anna.schumaker@...app.com>,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, xfs@....sgi.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org, linux-cifs@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-api@...r.kernel.org,
	Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 38/46] richacl: Add support for unmapped identifiers

On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 12:58:49AM +0200, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> From: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@...hat.com>
> 
> Some remote file systems like nfs may return user or group identifiers
> that cannot be mapped to local uids / gids.  Allow to represent such
> unmapped identifiers in richacls.  (We still cannot represent unmapped
> owners and owning groups, however.)
> 
> In the in-memory representation, the richacl is followed by a list of
> NUL-terminated strings, with no padding.  Entries with an unmapped
> identifier have the RICHACE_UNMAPPED_WHO flag set, and ace->e_id.offs
> specifies the offset into this list.  Multiple entries can refer to the
> same offset.
> 
> The xattr representation is similar, but ace->e_id is ignored, and the
> list of unmapped identifier strings contains a string for each acl entry
> whose RICHACE_UNMAPPED_WHO flag is set.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@...hat.com>
....
> +/**
> + * richacl_has_unmapped_identifiers
> + *
> + * Check if an acl has unmapped identifiers.
> + */
> +bool richacl_has_unmapped_identifiers(struct richacl *acl)
> +{
> +	struct richace *ace;
> +
> +	richacl_for_each_entry(ace, acl) {
> +		if (ace->e_flags & RICHACE_UNMAPPED_WHO)
> +			return true;
> +	}
> +	return false;
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(richacl_has_unmapped_identifiers);

This was used by the XFS support patch earlier in the series. Bisect
problem here...

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@...morbit.com
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