fs/9p: Implement POSIX ACL permission checking function

The ACL value is fetched as a part of inode initialization
from the server and the permission checking function use the
cached value of the ACL

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Venkateswararao Jujjuri <jvrao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/9p/Kconfig b/fs/9p/Kconfig
index 795233702a4e..7e0511476797 100644
--- a/fs/9p/Kconfig
+++ b/fs/9p/Kconfig
@@ -17,3 +17,16 @@ config 9P_FSCACHE
           Choose Y here to enable persistent, read-only local
           caching support for 9p clients using FS-Cache
 
+
+config 9P_FS_POSIX_ACL
+        bool "9P POSIX Access Control Lists"
+        depends on 9P_FS
+        select FS_POSIX_ACL
+        help
+          POSIX Access Control Lists (ACLs) support permissions for users and
+          groups beyond the owner/group/world scheme.
+
+          To learn more about Access Control Lists, visit the POSIX ACLs for
+          Linux website <http://acl.bestbits.at/>.
+
+          If you don't know what Access Control Lists are, say N