linux-kernel - [PATCH] docs: filesystems: idmappings: clarify from where idmappings are taken

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Message-Id: <20230621095905.31346-1-aleksandr.mikhalitsyn@canonical.com>
Date:   Wed, 21 Jun 2023 11:59:05 +0200
From:   Alexander Mikhalitsyn <aleksandr.mikhalitsyn@...onical.com>
To:     brauner@...nel.org
Cc:     linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        Alexander Mikhalitsyn <aleksandr.mikhalitsyn@...onical.com>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        Seth Forshee <sforshee@...nel.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] docs: filesystems: idmappings: clarify from where idmappings are taken

Let's clarify from where we take idmapping of each type:
- caller
- filesystem
- mount

Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: linux-doc@...r.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alexander Mikhalitsyn <aleksandr.mikhalitsyn@...onical.com>
---
 Documentation/filesystems/idmappings.rst | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/idmappings.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/idmappings.rst
index ad6d21640576..c20382f8bbb0 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/idmappings.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/idmappings.rst
@@ -373,6 +373,12 @@ kernel maps the caller's userspace id down into a kernel id according to the
 caller's idmapping and then maps that kernel id up according to the
 filesystem's idmapping.
 
+From the implementation point it's worth mentioning how idmappings are represented.
+All idmappings are taken from the corresponding user namespace.
+    - caller's idmapping (usually taken from ``current_user_ns()``)
+    - filesystem's idmapping (``sb->s_user_ns``)
+    - mount's idmapping (``mnt_idmap(vfsmnt)``)
+
 Let's see some examples with caller/filesystem idmapping but without mount
 idmappings. This will exhibit some problems we can hit. After that we will
 revisit/reconsider these examples, this time using mount idmappings, to see how
-- 
2.34.1