Re: [PATCH v6 05/39] namei: make permission helpers idmapped mount aware

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On Thu, 21 Jan 2021, Christian Brauner wrote:

> The two helpers inode_permission() and generic_permission() are used by
> the vfs to perform basic permission checking by verifying that the
> caller is privileged over an inode. In order to handle idmapped mounts
> we extend the two helpers with an additional user namespace argument.
> On idmapped mounts the two helpers will make sure to map the inode
> according to the mount's user namespace and then peform identical
> permission checks to inode_permission() and generic_permission(). If the
> initial user namespace is passed nothing changes so non-idmapped mounts
> will see identical behavior as before.
> 
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210112220124.837960-12-christian.brauner@xxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-fsdevel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@xxxxxxxxxx>


Reviewed-by: James Morris <jamorris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


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James Morris
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