linux-kernel - Re: About ACL for IPC Object

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Message-ID: <20100323115513.GA7751@infradead.org>
Date:	Tue, 23 Mar 2010 07:55:13 -0400
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	zhou peng <ailvpeng25@...il.com>
Cc:	Casey Schaufler <casey@...aufler-ca.com>,
	linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org, linux-next@...r.kernel.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: About ACL for IPC Object

On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 05:01:31PM +0800, zhou peng wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have added ACL support to POSIX msg queue on linux kernel 2.6.32.
> Casey Schaufler, would you or anyone like review the patch for me please?
> The patch is attached.

There is quite a lot of boilerplate code in the patch.  You might want
to take a look at fs/generic_acl.c and how mm/shmem.c uses it to get
away with a lot less code.

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