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From: David Howells
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Re: [PATCH 00/52] Introduce credential record
Date: Saturday, October 13, 2007 - 2:46 pm
Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:
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> 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?
Ext2, 3 & 4 use it to determine whether someone has the right to use the reserved space according to whether their UID/GID match those in the superblock. See ext3_has_free_blocks() for an example. David -
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[PATCH 00/52] Introduce credential record
, David Howells
, (Fri Oct 12, 9:05 am)
[PATCH 01/52] CRED: Introduce a COW credentials record
, David Howells
, (Fri Oct 12, 9:05 am)
[PATCH 02/52] CRED: Give in_group_p() a cred pointer
, David Howells
, (Fri Oct 12, 9:05 am)
[PATCH 03/52] CRED: Pass credentials down to ext3 block al ...
, David Howells
, (Fri Oct 12, 9:05 am)
[PATCH 04/52] CRED: Pass credentials down to ext3 inode al ...
, David Howells
, (Fri Oct 12, 9:05 am)
[PATCH 05/52] CRED: Prepare TMPFS for cred passing
, David Howells
, (Fri Oct 12, 9:05 am)
[PATCH 06/52] CRED: Prepare RAMFS for cred passing
, David Howells
, (Fri Oct 12, 9:05 am)
[PATCH 07/52] CRED: Pass credentials down to ext2 block al ...
, David Howells
, (Fri Oct 12, 9:05 am)
[PATCH 08/52] CRED: Pass credentials down to ext2 inode al ...
, David Howells
, (Fri Oct 12, 9:06 am)
[PATCH 09/52] CRED: Pass credentials down to ext4 block al ...
, David Howells
, (Fri Oct 12, 9:06 am)
[PATCH 10/52] CRED: Pass credentials down to ext4 inode al ...
, David Howells
, (Fri Oct 12, 9:06 am)
[PATCH 11/52] CRED: Give the get_block() callback a creden ...
, David Howells
, (Fri Oct 12, 9:06 am)
[PATCH 12/52] CRED: Make mpage read functions take a crede ...
, David Howells
, (Fri Oct 12, 9:06 am)
[PATCH 13/52] CRED: Make block_prepare_write() and co take ...
, David Howells
, (Fri Oct 12, 9:06 am)
[PATCH 14/52] CRED: Provide a writeback credentials record
, David Howells
, (Fri Oct 12, 9:06 am)
[PATCH 15/52] CRED: Make Ext3 use the writeback credentials
, David Howells
, (Fri Oct 12, 9:06 am)
[PATCH 16/52] CRED: Pass credentials through the internals ...
, David Howells
, (Fri Oct 12, 9:06 am)
[PATCH 17/52] CRED: Make rpcauth_lookupcred() take a crede ...
, David Howells
, (Fri Oct 12, 9:06 am)
[PATCH 18/52] CRED: Make rpcauth_bindcred() take a credent ...
, David Howells
, (Fri Oct 12, 9:06 am)
[PATCH 19/52] CRED: Add a credentials pointer to struct rp ...
, David Howells
, (Fri Oct 12, 9:06 am)
[PATCH 20/52] CRED: Pass credentials into rpc_init_task()
, David Howells
, (Fri Oct 12, 9:07 am)
[PATCH 21/52] CRED: Pass credentials through the truncate( ...
, David Howells
, (Fri Oct 12, 9:07 am)
[PATCH 22/52] CRED: Pass credentials to nfs_setattr_update ...
, David Howells
, (Fri Oct 12, 9:07 am)
[PATCH 23/52] CRED: Pass credentials to the setattr() inod ...
, David Howells
, (Fri Oct 12, 9:07 am)
[PATCH 24/52] CRED: Pass credentials through inode_setattr()
, David Howells
, (Fri Oct 12, 9:07 am)
[PATCH 25/52] CRED: Give the mknod() inode op a credential ...
, David Howells
, (Fri Oct 12, 9:07 am)
[PATCH 26/52] CRED: Give the mkdir() inode op a credential ...
, David Howells
, (Fri Oct 12, 9:07 am)
[PATCH 27/52] CRED: Give the create() inode op a credentia ...
, David Howells
, (Fri Oct 12, 9:07 am)
[PATCH 28/52] CRED: Give the link() inode op a credentials ...
, David Howells
, (Fri Oct 12, 9:07 am)
[PATCH 29/52] CRED: Give the unlink() inode op a credentia ...
, David Howells
, (Fri Oct 12, 9:07 am)
[PATCH 30/52] CRED: Give the rmdir() inode op a credential ...
, David Howells
, (Fri Oct 12, 9:07 am)
[PATCH 31/52] CRED: Give the rename() inode op a credentia ...
, David Howells
, (Fri Oct 12, 9:07 am)
[PATCH 32/52] CRED: Give the symlink() inode op a credenti ...
, David Howells
, (Fri Oct 12, 9:08 am)
[PATCH 33/52] CRED: Make the get_parent() export op take a ...
, David Howells
, (Fri Oct 12, 9:08 am)
[PATCH 34/52] CRED: Make Ext3 ACL set handlers pass creden ...
, David Howells
, (Fri Oct 12, 9:08 am)
[PATCH 35/52] CRED: Make the ACL set() handler take a cred ...
, David Howells
, (Fri Oct 12, 9:08 am)
[PATCH 36/52] CRED: Make ext3_fill_super() pass credential ...
, David Howells
, (Fri Oct 12, 9:08 am)
[PATCH 37/52] CRED: Pass credentials to the get_sb() op an ...
, David Howells
, (Fri Oct 12, 9:08 am)
[PATCH 38/52] CRED: Pass credentials through the quota_rea ...
, David Howells
, (Fri Oct 12, 9:08 am)
[PATCH 39/52] CRED: Pass credentials through the quota_wri ...
, David Howells
, (Fri Oct 12, 9:08 am)
[PATCH 40/52] CRED: Give the lookup() inode op a credentia ...
, David Howells
, (Fri Oct 12, 9:08 am)
[PATCH 41/52] CRED: Pass credentials through d_revalidate()
, David Howells
, (Fri Oct 12, 9:08 am)
[PATCH 42/52] CRED: Pass credentials through the permissio ...
, David Howells
, (Fri Oct 12, 9:08 am)
[PATCH 43/52] CRED: Pass credentials through the statfs() ...
, David Howells
, (Fri Oct 12, 9:08 am)
[PATCH 44/52] CRED: Pass credentials through the follow_li ...
, David Howells
, (Fri Oct 12, 9:09 am)
[PATCH 45/52] CRED: Pass credentials through the getattr() ...
, David Howells
, (Fri Oct 12, 9:09 am)
[PATCH 46/52] CRED: Pass credentials through the setxattr( ...
, David Howells
, (Fri Oct 12, 9:09 am)
[PATCH 47/52] CRED: Pass credentials through the xattr get ...
, David Howells
, (Fri Oct 12, 9:09 am)
[PATCH 48/52] CRED: Pass credentials through the getxattr( ...
, David Howells
, (Fri Oct 12, 9:09 am)
[PATCH 49/52] CRED: Pass credentials through the xattr lis ...
, David Howells
, (Fri Oct 12, 9:09 am)
[PATCH 50/52] CRED: Pass credentials through the listxattr ...
, David Howells
, (Fri Oct 12, 9:09 am)
[PATCH 51/52] CRED: Pass credentials through the removexat ...
, David Howells
, (Fri Oct 12, 9:09 am)
[PATCH 52/52] CRED: Pass credentials through vfs_mkdir()
, David Howells
, (Fri Oct 12, 9:09 am)
Re: [PATCH 00/52] Introduce credential record
, Theodore Tso
, (Sat Oct 13, 11:11 am)
Re: [PATCH 00/52] Introduce credential record
, Al Viro
, (Sat Oct 13, 11:19 am)
Re: [PATCH 00/52] Introduce credential record
, David Howells
, (Sat Oct 13, 2:46 pm)
Re: [PATCH 01/52] CRED: Introduce a COW credentials record
, David Chinner
, (Sun Oct 14, 6:53 pm)
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