fs: document and rename fsid helpers

Vivek pointed out that the fs{g,u}id_into_mnt() naming scheme can be
misleading as it could be understood as implying they do the exact same
thing as i_{g,u}id_into_mnt(). The original motivation for this naming
scheme was to signal to callers that the helpers will always take care
to map the k{g,u}id such that the ownership is expressed in terms of the
mnt_users.
Get rid of the confusion by renaming those helpers to something more
sensible. Al suggested mapped_fs{g,u}id() which seems a really good fit.
Usually filesystems don't need to bother with these helpers directly
only in some cases where they allocate objects that carry {g,u}ids which
are either filesystem specific (e.g. xfs quota objects) or don't have a
clean set of helpers as inodes have.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210320122623.599086-3-christian.brauner@ubuntu.com
Inspired-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>

1 files changed, 26 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index 33873531ffa6..e34967829183 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -1658,12 +1658,36 @@ static inline kgid_t kgid_from_mnt(struct user_namespace *mnt_userns,
 	return KGIDT_INIT(from_kgid(mnt_userns, kgid));
 }
 
-static inline kuid_t fsuid_into_mnt(struct user_namespace *mnt_userns)
+/**
+ * mapped_fsuid - return caller's fsuid mapped up into a mnt_userns
+ * @mnt_userns: user namespace of the relevant mount
+ *
+ * Use this helper to initialize a new vfs or filesystem object based on
+ * the caller's fsuid. A common example is initializing the i_uid field of
+ * a newly allocated inode triggered by a creation event such as mkdir or
+ * O_CREAT. Other examples include the allocation of quotas for a specific
+ * user.
+ *
+ * Return: the caller's current fsuid mapped up according to @mnt_userns.
+ */
+static inline kuid_t mapped_fsuid(struct user_namespace *mnt_userns)
 {
 	return kuid_from_mnt(mnt_userns, current_fsuid());
 }
 
-static inline kgid_t fsgid_into_mnt(struct user_namespace *mnt_userns)
+/**
+ * mapped_fsgid - return caller's fsgid mapped up into a mnt_userns
+ * @mnt_userns: user namespace of the relevant mount
+ *
+ * Use this helper to initialize a new vfs or filesystem object based on
+ * the caller's fsgid. A common example is initializing the i_gid field of
+ * a newly allocated inode triggered by a creation event such as mkdir or
+ * O_CREAT. Other examples include the allocation of quotas for a specific
+ * user.
+ *
+ * Return: the caller's current fsgid mapped up according to @mnt_userns.
+ */
+static inline kgid_t mapped_fsgid(struct user_namespace *mnt_userns)
 {
 	return kgid_from_mnt(mnt_userns, current_fsgid());
 }