On Thu, Sep 09, 2021 at 12:41:33PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Wed, Sep 8, 2021 at 9:27 PM Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs.git work.gfs2 > > > > for you to fetch changes up to d75b9fa053e4cd278281386d860c26fdbfbe9d03: > > > > gfs2: Switch to may_setattr in gfs2_setattr (2021-08-13 00:41:05 -0400) > > Explanation for what this series actually does? > > I can see the shortlog, I can look at the commits, but I really want a > summary in the pull request. Basically, gfs2 has redo the permission checks after it grabs a cluster lock, and they want to have that doable by call of shared helper, rather than open-coding those checks. Looks reasonable to me...
