[RFC PATCH v3 1/5] UBIFS: ACL: introduce init/set/get functions for ACL

Andreas Grünbacher andreas.gruenbacher at gmail.com
Fri Sep 11 13:05:52 PDT 2015


2015-09-11 8:13 GMT+02:00 Sheng Yong <shengyong1 at huawei.com>:
> It seems xattr handler will be removed because of dead code of security xattr.

The security xattr handler right now is dead code. If you can convert
ubifs to use the xattr handler infrastructure (super_block.s_xattr,
etc.), that would be great; the security xattr handler would then
start being useful. You could then implement POSIX ACLs as tmpfs does
(mm/shmem.c).

Andreas



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