On Sat, Mar 20, 2021 at 11:03:22AM +0100, Christian Brauner wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 11:42:48PM +0100, Andreas Grünbacher wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Am Fr., 19. März 2021 um 20:58 Uhr schrieb Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> > > posix_acl_update_mode() determines what's the equivalent mode and if SGID
> > > needs to be cleared or not. I need to make use of this code in fuse
> > > as well. Fuse will send this information to virtiofs file server and
> > > file server will take care of clearing SGID if it needs to be done.
> > >
> > > Hence move this code in a separate helper so that more than one place
> > > can call into it.
> > >
> > > Cc: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > > fs/posix_acl.c | 3 +--
> > > include/linux/posix_acl.h | 11 +++++++++++
> > > 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/fs/posix_acl.c b/fs/posix_acl.c
> > > index f3309a7edb49..2d62494c4a5b 100644
> > > --- a/fs/posix_acl.c
> > > +++ b/fs/posix_acl.c
> > > @@ -684,8 +684,7 @@ int posix_acl_update_mode(struct user_namespace *mnt_userns,
> > > return error;
> > > if (error == 0)
> > > *acl = NULL;
> > > - if (!in_group_p(i_gid_into_mnt(mnt_userns, inode)) &&
> > > - !capable_wrt_inode_uidgid(mnt_userns, inode, CAP_FSETID))
> > > + if (posix_acl_mode_clear_sgid(mnt_userns, inode))
> > > mode &= ~S_ISGID;
> > > *mode_p = mode;
> > > return 0;
> > > diff --git a/include/linux/posix_acl.h b/include/linux/posix_acl.h
> > > index 307094ebb88c..073c5e546de3 100644
> > > --- a/include/linux/posix_acl.h
> > > +++ b/include/linux/posix_acl.h
> > > @@ -59,6 +59,17 @@ posix_acl_release(struct posix_acl *acl)
> > > }
> > >
> > >
> > > +static inline bool
> > > +posix_acl_mode_clear_sgid(struct user_namespace *mnt_userns,
> > > + struct inode *inode)
> > > +{
> > > + if (!in_group_p(i_gid_into_mnt(mnt_userns, inode)) &&
> > > + !capable_wrt_inode_uidgid(mnt_userns, inode, CAP_FSETID))
> > > + return true;
> > > +
> > > + return false;
> >
> > That's just
> >
> > return !in_group_p(i_gid_into_mnt(mnt_userns, inode)) &&
> > !capable_wrt_inode_uidgid(mnt_userns, inode, CAP_FSETID);
> >
> > The same pattern we have in posix_acl_update_mode also exists in
> > setattr_copy and inode_init_owner, and almost the same pattern exists
> > in setattr_prepare, so can this be cleaned up as well? The function
> > also isn't POSIX ACL specific, so the function name is misleading.
>
> Good idea but that should probably be spun into a separate patchset that
> only touches the vfs parts.
IIUC, suggestion is that I should write a VFS helper (and not posix
acl helper) and use that helper at other places too in the code.
I will do that and post in a separate patch series.
Thanks
Vivek
