linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RFC 10/12] userns: Convert xfs to use kuid/kgid/kprojid where appropriate

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Date:	Wed, 21 Nov 2012 11:52:47 -0800
From:	Joel Becker <jlbec@...lplan.org>
To:	Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>
Cc:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	Linux Containers <containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com>,
	Ben Myers <bpm@....com>, Alex Elder <elder@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 10/12] userns: Convert xfs to use kuid/kgid/kprojid
 where appropriate

On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 10:55:24AM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c
> > index 2778258..3656b88 100644
> > --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c
> > +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c
> > @@ -570,11 +570,12 @@ xfs_dinode_from_disk(
> >  	to->di_version = from ->di_version;
> >  	to->di_format = from->di_format;
> >  	to->di_onlink = be16_to_cpu(from->di_onlink);
> > -	to->di_uid = be32_to_cpu(from->di_uid);
> > -	to->di_gid = be32_to_cpu(from->di_gid);
> > +	to->di_uid = make_kuid(&init_user_ns, be32_to_cpu(from->di_uid));
> > +	to->di_gid = make_kgid(&init_user_ns, be32_to_cpu(from->di_gid));
> 
> You can't do this, because the incore inode structure is written
> directly to the log. This is effectively an on-disk format change.

	Yeah, I don't get this either.  Over in ocfs2, you do the
correct thing, translating at the boundary from ocfs2_dinode to struct
inode.

Joel

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