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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/locking.rst | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst | 2 |
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/locking.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/locking.rst index c0f2c7586531..b7dcc86c92a4 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/locking.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/locking.rst @@ -126,9 +126,10 @@ prototypes:: int (*get)(const struct xattr_handler *handler, struct dentry *dentry, struct inode *inode, const char *name, void *buffer, size_t size); - int (*set)(const struct xattr_handler *handler, struct dentry *dentry, - struct inode *inode, const char *name, const void *buffer, - size_t size, int flags); + int (*set)(const struct xattr_handler *handler, + struct user_namespace *mnt_userns, + struct dentry *dentry, struct inode *inode, const char *name, + const void *buffer, size_t size, int flags); locking rules: all may block diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst index 867036aa90b8..de1dcec3b5b8 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst @@ -717,6 +717,8 @@ be removed. Switch while you still can; the old one won't stay. **mandatory** ->setxattr() and xattr_handler.set() get dentry and inode passed separately. +The xattr_handler.set() gets passed the user namespace of the mount the inode +is seen from so filesystems can idmap the i_uid and i_gid accordingly. dentry might be yet to be attached to inode, so do _not_ use its ->d_inode in the instances. Rationale: !@#!@# security_d_instantiate() needs to be called before we attach dentry to inode and !@#!@##!@$!$#!@#$!@$!@$ smack |