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From: Theodore Tso <tytso@...>

To: David Howells <dhowells@...>

Cc: <viro@...>, <kwc@...>, <Trond.Myklebust@...>, <linux-kernel@...>

Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/52] Introduce credential record

Date: Saturday, October 13, 2007 - 2:11 pm

Hi David,

   I'm going to ask a stupid question, and I probably missed something
in the 52 patches, but....  I see how the credential is used to do
access checks, but why does the credentials record need to passed all
the way into block allocator?  What is it used for there?

    	     	   	       	       	  - Ted
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[PATCH 00/52] Introduce credential record, David Howells, (Fri Oct 12, 12:05 pm)

Re: [PATCH 00/52] Introduce credential record, Theodore Tso, (Sat Oct 13, 2:11 pm)

Re: [PATCH 00/52] Introduce credential record, David Howells, (Sat Oct 13, 5:46 pm)

Re: [PATCH 00/52] Introduce credential record, Al Viro, (Sat Oct 13, 2:19 pm)

[PATCH 52/52] CRED: Pass credentials through vfs_mkdir(), David Howells, (Fri Oct 12, 12:09 pm)

[PATCH 51/52] CRED: Pass credentials through the removexattr..., David Howells, (Fri Oct 12, 12:09 pm)

[PATCH 50/52] CRED: Pass credentials through the listxattr()..., David Howells, (Fri Oct 12, 12:09 pm)

[PATCH 49/52] CRED: Pass credentials through the xattr list(..., David Howells, (Fri Oct 12, 12:09 pm)

[PATCH 48/52] CRED: Pass credentials through the getxattr() ..., David Howells, (Fri Oct 12, 12:09 pm)

[PATCH 47/52] CRED: Pass credentials through the xattr get()..., David Howells, (Fri Oct 12, 12:09 pm)

[PATCH 46/52] CRED: Pass credentials through the setxattr() ..., David Howells, (Fri Oct 12, 12:09 pm)

[PATCH 45/52] CRED: Pass credentials through the getattr() i..., David Howells, (Fri Oct 12, 12:09 pm)

[PATCH 42/52] CRED: Pass credentials through the permission(..., David Howells, (Fri Oct 12, 12:08 pm)

[PATCH 44/52] CRED: Pass credentials through the follow_link..., David Howells, (Fri Oct 12, 12:09 pm)

[PATCH 43/52] CRED: Pass credentials through the statfs() su..., David Howells, (Fri Oct 12, 12:08 pm)

[PATCH 41/52] CRED: Pass credentials through d_revalidate(), David Howells, (Fri Oct 12, 12:08 pm)

[PATCH 40/52] CRED: Give the lookup() inode op a credentials..., David Howells, (Fri Oct 12, 12:08 pm)

[PATCH 39/52] CRED: Pass credentials through the quota_write..., David Howells, (Fri Oct 12, 12:08 pm)

[PATCH 38/52] CRED: Pass credentials through the quota_read(..., David Howells, (Fri Oct 12, 12:08 pm)

[PATCH 37/52] CRED: Pass credentials to the get_sb() op and ..., David Howells, (Fri Oct 12, 12:08 pm)

[PATCH 36/52] CRED: Make ext3_fill_super() pass credentials ..., David Howells, (Fri Oct 12, 12:08 pm)

[PATCH 35/52] CRED: Make the ACL set() handler take a creden..., David Howells, (Fri Oct 12, 12:08 pm)

[PATCH 34/52] CRED: Make Ext3 ACL set handlers pass credenti..., David Howells, (Fri Oct 12, 12:08 pm)

[PATCH 33/52] CRED: Make the get_parent() export op take a c..., David Howells, (Fri Oct 12, 12:08 pm)

[PATCH 31/52] CRED: Give the rename() inode op a credentials..., David Howells, (Fri Oct 12, 12:07 pm)

[PATCH 32/52] CRED: Give the symlink() inode op a credential..., David Howells, (Fri Oct 12, 12:08 pm)

[PATCH 29/52] CRED: Give the unlink() inode op a credentials..., David Howells, (Fri Oct 12, 12:07 pm)

[PATCH 30/52] CRED: Give the rmdir() inode op a credentials ..., David Howells, (Fri Oct 12, 12:07 pm)

[PATCH 28/52] CRED: Give the link() inode op a credentials p..., David Howells, (Fri Oct 12, 12:07 pm)

[PATCH 27/52] CRED: Give the create() inode op a credentials..., David Howells, (Fri Oct 12, 12:07 pm)

[PATCH 26/52] CRED: Give the mkdir() inode op a credentials ..., David Howells, (Fri Oct 12, 12:07 pm)

[PATCH 24/52] CRED: Pass credentials through inode_setattr(), David Howells, (Fri Oct 12, 12:07 pm)

[PATCH 25/52] CRED: Give the mknod() inode op a credentials ..., David Howells, (Fri Oct 12, 12:07 pm)

[PATCH 23/52] CRED: Pass credentials to the setattr() inode ..., David Howells, (Fri Oct 12, 12:07 pm)

[PATCH 22/52] CRED: Pass credentials to nfs_setattr_update_i..., David Howells, (Fri Oct 12, 12:07 pm)

[PATCH 20/52] CRED: Pass credentials into rpc_init_task(), David Howells, (Fri Oct 12, 12:07 pm)

[PATCH 21/52] CRED: Pass credentials through the truncate() ..., David Howells, (Fri Oct 12, 12:07 pm)

[PATCH 19/52] CRED: Add a credentials pointer to struct rpc_..., David Howells, (Fri Oct 12, 12:06 pm)

[PATCH 18/52] CRED: Make rpcauth_bindcred() take a credentia..., David Howells, (Fri Oct 12, 12:06 pm)

[PATCH 17/52] CRED: Make rpcauth_lookupcred() take a credent..., David Howells, (Fri Oct 12, 12:06 pm)

[PATCH 16/52] CRED: Pass credentials through the internals o..., David Howells, (Fri Oct 12, 12:06 pm)

[PATCH 15/52] CRED: Make Ext3 use the writeback credentials, David Howells, (Fri Oct 12, 12:06 pm)

[PATCH 11/52] CRED: Give the get_block() callback a credenti..., David Howells, (Fri Oct 12, 12:06 pm)

[PATCH 13/52] CRED: Make block_prepare_write() and co take a..., David Howells, (Fri Oct 12, 12:06 pm)

[PATCH 12/52] CRED: Make mpage read functions take a credent..., David Howells, (Fri Oct 12, 12:06 pm)

[PATCH 14/52] CRED: Provide a writeback credentials record, David Howells, (Fri Oct 12, 12:06 pm)

[PATCH 09/52] CRED: Pass credentials down to ext4 block allo..., David Howells, (Fri Oct 12, 12:06 pm)

[PATCH 10/52] CRED: Pass credentials down to ext4 inode allo..., David Howells, (Fri Oct 12, 12:06 pm)

[PATCH 03/52] CRED: Pass credentials down to ext3 block allo..., David Howells, (Fri Oct 12, 12:05 pm)

[PATCH 08/52] CRED: Pass credentials down to ext2 inode allo..., David Howells, (Fri Oct 12, 12:06 pm)

[PATCH 07/52] CRED: Pass credentials down to ext2 block allo..., David Howells, (Fri Oct 12, 12:05 pm)

[PATCH 06/52] CRED: Prepare RAMFS for cred passing, David Howells, (Fri Oct 12, 12:05 pm)

[PATCH 04/52] CRED: Pass credentials down to ext3 inode allo..., David Howells, (Fri Oct 12, 12:05 pm)

[PATCH 05/52] CRED: Prepare TMPFS for cred passing, David Howells, (Fri Oct 12, 12:05 pm)

[PATCH 01/52] CRED: Introduce a COW credentials record, David Howells, (Fri Oct 12, 12:05 pm)

Re: [PATCH 01/52] CRED: Introduce a COW credentials record, David Chinner, (Sun Oct 14, 9:53 pm)

[PATCH 02/52] CRED: Give in_group_p() a cred pointer, David Howells, (Fri Oct 12, 12:05 pm)

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