On Thursday 22 February 2018 11:45:14 Jan Kara wrote: > Hello, > > this patch series improves uid and gid handling for UDF filesystems. In > particular when uid/gid mount options are used, we make sure even newly created > and chowned files still belong to the target user/group (UDF now behaves the > same way as FAT in this mode to be easy to use for removable media). Also when > the filesystem does not store uid/gid for files, we now present these files as > belonging to overflow[ug]id instead of invalid ids if uid/gid mount option are > not used so that at least sysadmin can modify the filesystem. > > Honza Looks good, this should improve handling of uid/gid on removable UDF filesystems. Add my Reviewed-by: Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@xxxxxxxxx> Anyway, I would propose backporting patch "[PATCH 4/5] udf: Provide saner default for invalid uid / gid" into stable kernels to allow root user to modify files without uid/gid. -- Pali Rohár pali.rohar@xxxxxxxxx
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