Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] fuse: Fix clearing SGID when access ACL is set

[Vivek Goyal]

On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 01:57:01PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 4:19 PM Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > This is V2 of the patchset. Posted V1 here.
> >
> > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/20210319195547.427371-1-vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx/
> >
> > Changes since V1:
> >
> > - Dropped the helper to determine if SGID should be cleared and open
> >   coded it instead. I will follow up on helper separately in a different
> >   patch series. There are few places already which open code this, so
> >   for now fuse can do the same. Atleast I can make progress on this
> >   and virtiofs can enable ACL support.
> >
> > Luis reported that xfstests generic/375 fails with virtiofs. Little
> > debugging showed that when posix access acl is set that in some
> > cases SGID needs to be cleared and that does not happen with virtiofs.
> >
> > Setting posix access acl can lead to mode change and it can also lead
> > to clear of SGID. fuse relies on file server taking care of all
> > the mode changes. But file server does not have enough information to
> > determine whether SGID should be cleared or not.
> >
> > Hence this patch series add support to send a flag in SETXATTR message
> > to tell server to clear SGID.
> 
> Changed it to have a single extended structure for the request, which
> is how this has always been handled in the fuse API.
> 
> The ABI is unchanged, but you'll need to update the userspace part
> according to the API change.  Otherwise looks good.

Hi Miklos,

Thanks. Patches look good. I will update userspace part and repost.

Vivek

> 
> Applied and pushed to fuse.git#for-next.
> 
> Thanks,
> Miklos
>