Thread (31 messages) 31 messages, 4 authors, 2021-07-14

Re: [PATCH 01/24] namei: handle mappings in lookup_one_len()

From: Christian Brauner <hidden>
Date: 2021-07-13 13:41:44
Also in: linux-fsdevel

On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 01:32:42PM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 01:13:21PM +0200, Christian Brauner wrote:
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From: Christian Brauner <redacted>

Various filesystems use the lookup_one_len() helper to lookup a single path
component relative to a well-known starting point. Allow such filesystems to
support idmapped mounts by enabling lookup_one_len() to take the idmap into
account when calling inode_permission(). This change is a required to let btrfs
(and other filesystems) support idmapped mounts.
NAK.  Expose a new variant if you must, but leave the old one alone.
Ok, happy to do that.
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