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Age	Commit message (Collapse)	Author	Files	Lines
2011-07-25	fs: take the ACL checks to common code	Christoph Hellwig	1	-1/+0
	Replace the ->check_acl method with a ->get_acl method that simply reads an ACL from disk after having a cache miss. This means we can replace the ACL checking boilerplate code with a single implementation in namei.c. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-20	->permission() sanitizing: don't pass flags to ->check_acl()	Al Viro	1	-1/+1
	not used in the instances anymore. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-01-07	fs: provide rcu-walk aware permission i_ops	Nick Piggin	1	-1/+1
	Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2010-05-21	fs: xattr_handler table should be const	Stephen Hemminger	1	-2/+2
	The entries in xattr handler table should be immutable (ie const) like other operation tables. Later patches convert common filesystems. Uncoverted filesystems will still work, but will generate a compiler warning. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-12-16	make generic_acl slightly more generic	Christoph Hellwig	1	-31/+10
	Now that we cache the ACL pointers in the generic inode all the generic_acl cruft can go away and generic_acl.c can directly implement xattr handlers dealing with the full Posix ACL semantics for in-memory filesystems. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2007-05-09	fix file specification in comments	Uwe Kleine-König	1	-1/+1
	Many files include the filename at the beginning, serveral used a wrong one. Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <ukleinek@informatik.uni-freiburg.de> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-09-29	[PATCH] Generic infrastructure for acls	Andreas Gruenbacher	1	-0/+36
	The patches solve the following problem: We want to grant access to devices based on who is logged in from where, etc. This includes switching back and forth between multiple user sessions, etc. Using ACLs to define device access for logged-in users gives us all the flexibility we need in order to fully solve the problem. Device special files nowadays usually live on tmpfs, hence tmpfs ACLs. Different distros have come up with solutions that solve the problem to different degrees: SUSE uses a resource manager which tracks login sessions and sets ACLs on device inodes as appropriate. RedHat uses pam_console, which changes the primary file ownership to the logged-in user. Others use a set of groups that users must be in in order to be granted the appropriate accesses. The freedesktop.org project plans to implement a combination of a console-tracker and a HAL-device-list based solution to grant access to devices to users, and more distros will likely follow this approach. These patches have first been posted here on 2 February 2005, and again on 8 January 2006. We have been shipping them in SLES9 and SLES10 with no problems reported. The previous submission is archived here: http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/1/8/229 http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/1/8/230 http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/1/8/231 This patch: Add some infrastructure for access control lists on in-memory filesystems such as tmpfs. Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>