linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 2/5] ubifs: Initialize or update ACLs for inode

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Message-ID: <10859a10-5c31-a5ec-02f5-47216132cf01@huawei.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2024 20:07:02 +0800
From: Zhihao Cheng <chengzhihao1@...wei.com>
To: Li Zetao <lizetao1@...wei.com>, <richard@....at>,
	<kent.overstreet@...ux.dev>, <agruenba@...hat.com>
CC: <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 2/5] ubifs: Initialize or update ACLs for inode

在 2024/3/22 19:57, Li Zetao 写道:
> Hi,
> 
> On 2024/3/21 11:47, Zhihao Cheng wrote:
>> 在 2024/3/20 0:16, Li Zetao 写道:
>>> There are two scenarios where ACL needs to be updated, the first one
>>> is when creating the inode, and the second one is in the chmod process.
>>> When creating directories/files/device node/tmpfile, ACLs needs to be
>>> initialized, but symlink do not.Why not support symlink? It looks 
>>> like many filesystems(eg. ext4, f2fs, 
>> btrfs) support it, except xfs.
> Thanks for the reviews, but this is inconsistent with my understanding.
> I think most file systems in Linux do not support it, because most file 
> systems do not register the get/set functions of ACLs for symlink 
> operations. And the posix_acl_create() will determine that it is a 
> symlink type inode, and then skip the creation process. But except for 
> bcachefs, it may be to solve the problem of certain scenarios, so it 
> would be nice if anyone could explain it to us.

You are right, only bcachefs support acl for symlink.