Re: [RFC v3 12/45] richacl: Compute maximum file masks from an acl

[J. Bruce Fields]

On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 01:04:09PM +0200, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> Compute upper bound owner, group, and other file masks with as few
> permissions as possible without denying any permissions that the NFSv4
> acl in a richacl grants.
> 
> This algorithm is used when a file inherits an acl at create time and
> when an acl is set via a mechanism that does not provide file masks
> (such as setting an acl via nfsd).  When user-space sets an acl via
> setxattr, the extended attribute already includes the file masks.
> 
> Setting an acl also sets the file mode permission bits: they are
> determined by the file masks; see richacl_masks_to_mode().

Thanks, the verbose comments are welcomed here, just one typo:

> +	/*
> +	 * @gmask contains all permissions which the group class is ever
> +	 * allowed.  We use it to avoid adding permissions to the group mask
> +	 * from everyone@ allow aces which the group class is always denied
> +	 * through other aces.  For example, the following acl would otherwise
> +	 * result in a group mask or rw:

s/or/of/ ?

--b.
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