From f0c8bd164e1a0585d7e46896553136b4f488bd19 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andreas Gruenbacher Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 02:01:34 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Generic infrastructure for acls The patches solve the following problem: We want to grant access to devices based on who is logged in from where, etc. This includes switching back and forth between multiple user sessions, etc. Using ACLs to define device access for logged-in users gives us all the flexibility we need in order to fully solve the problem. Device special files nowadays usually live on tmpfs, hence tmpfs ACLs. Different distros have come up with solutions that solve the problem to different degrees: SUSE uses a resource manager which tracks login sessions and sets ACLs on device inodes as appropriate. RedHat uses pam_console, which changes the primary file ownership to the logged-in user. Others use a set of groups that users must be in in order to be granted the appropriate accesses. The freedesktop.org project plans to implement a combination of a console-tracker and a HAL-device-list based solution to grant access to devices to users, and more distros will likely follow this approach. These patches have first been posted here on 2 February 2005, and again on 8 January 2006. We have been shipping them in SLES9 and SLES10 with no problems reported. The previous submission is archived here: http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/1/8/229 http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/1/8/230 http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/1/8/231 This patch: Add some infrastructure for access control lists on in-memory filesystems such as tmpfs. Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher Cc: Hugh Dickins Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- fs/Makefile | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'fs/Makefile') diff --git a/fs/Makefile b/fs/Makefile index 89135428a539..46b8cfe497b2 100644 --- a/fs/Makefile +++ b/fs/Makefile @@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_BINFMT_FLAT) += binfmt_flat.o obj-$(CONFIG_FS_MBCACHE) += mbcache.o obj-$(CONFIG_FS_POSIX_ACL) += posix_acl.o xattr_acl.o obj-$(CONFIG_NFS_COMMON) += nfs_common/ +obj-$(CONFIG_GENERIC_ACL) += generic_acl.o obj-$(CONFIG_QUOTA) += dquot.o obj-$(CONFIG_QFMT_V1) += quota_v1.o -- cgit v1.2.2 From 9361401eb7619c033e2394e4f9f6d410d6719ac7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Howells Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 20:45:40 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] BLOCK: Make it possible to disable the block layer [try #6] Make it possible to disable the block layer. Not all embedded devices require it, some can make do with just JFFS2, NFS, ramfs, etc - none of which require the block layer to be present. This patch does the following: (*) Introduces CONFIG_BLOCK to disable the block layer, buffering and blockdev support. (*) Adds dependencies on CONFIG_BLOCK to any configuration item that controls an item that uses the block layer. This includes: (*) Block I/O tracing. (*) Disk partition code. (*) All filesystems that are block based, eg: Ext3, ReiserFS, ISOFS. (*) The SCSI layer. As far as I can tell, even SCSI chardevs use the block layer to do scheduling. Some drivers that use SCSI facilities - such as USB storage - end up disabled indirectly from this. (*) Various block-based device drivers, such as IDE and the old CDROM drivers. (*) MTD blockdev handling and FTL. (*) JFFS - which uses set_bdev_super(), something it could avoid doing by taking a leaf out of JFFS2's book. (*) Makes most of the contents of linux/blkdev.h, linux/buffer_head.h and linux/elevator.h contingent on CONFIG_BLOCK being set. sector_div() is, however, still used in places, and so is still available. (*) Also made contingent are the contents of linux/mpage.h, linux/genhd.h and parts of linux/fs.h. (*) Makes a number of files in fs/ contingent on CONFIG_BLOCK. (*) Makes mm/bounce.c (bounce buffering) contingent on CONFIG_BLOCK. (*) set_page_dirty() doesn't call __set_page_dirty_buffers() if CONFIG_BLOCK is not enabled. (*) fs/no-block.c is created to hold out-of-line stubs and things that are required when CONFIG_BLOCK is not set: (*) Default blockdev file operations (to give error ENODEV on opening). (*) Makes some /proc changes: (*) /proc/devices does not list any blockdevs. (*) /proc/diskstats and /proc/partitions are contingent on CONFIG_BLOCK. (*) Makes some compat ioctl handling contingent on CONFIG_BLOCK. (*) If CONFIG_BLOCK is not defined, makes sys_quotactl() return -ENODEV if given command other than Q_SYNC or if a special device is specified. (*) In init/do_mounts.c, no reference is made to the blockdev routines if CONFIG_BLOCK is not defined. This does not prohibit NFS roots or JFFS2. (*) The bdflush, ioprio_set and ioprio_get syscalls can now be absent (return error ENOSYS by way of cond_syscall if so). (*) The seclvl_bd_claim() and seclvl_bd_release() security calls do nothing if CONFIG_BLOCK is not set, since they can't then happen. Signed-Off-By: David Howells Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe --- fs/Makefile | 14 ++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'fs/Makefile') diff --git a/fs/Makefile b/fs/Makefile index 46b8cfe497b2..a503e6ce0f32 100644 --- a/fs/Makefile +++ b/fs/Makefile @@ -5,12 +5,18 @@ # Rewritten to use lists instead of if-statements. # -obj-y := open.o read_write.o file_table.o buffer.o bio.o super.o \ - block_dev.o char_dev.o stat.o exec.o pipe.o namei.o fcntl.o \ +obj-y := open.o read_write.o file_table.o super.o \ + char_dev.o stat.o exec.o pipe.o namei.o fcntl.o \ ioctl.o readdir.o select.o fifo.o locks.o dcache.o inode.o \ attr.o bad_inode.o file.o filesystems.o namespace.o aio.o \ - seq_file.o xattr.o libfs.o fs-writeback.o mpage.o direct-io.o \ - ioprio.o pnode.o drop_caches.o splice.o sync.o + seq_file.o xattr.o libfs.o fs-writeback.o \ + pnode.o drop_caches.o splice.o sync.o + +ifeq ($(CONFIG_BLOCK),y) +obj-y += buffer.o bio.o block_dev.o direct-io.o mpage.o ioprio.o +else +obj-y += no-block.o +endif obj-$(CONFIG_INOTIFY) += inotify.o obj-$(CONFIG_INOTIFY_USER) += inotify_user.o -- cgit v1.2.2 From 82b0547cfae1fb2ee26cad588f6d49a347d24740 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alexey Dobriyan Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 23:27:22 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Create fs/utimes.c * fs/open.c is getting bit crowdy * preparation to lutimes(2) Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- fs/Makefile | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'fs/Makefile') diff --git a/fs/Makefile b/fs/Makefile index a503e6ce0f32..819b2a93bebe 100644 --- a/fs/Makefile +++ b/fs/Makefile @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ obj-y := open.o read_write.o file_table.o super.o \ ioctl.o readdir.o select.o fifo.o locks.o dcache.o inode.o \ attr.o bad_inode.o file.o filesystems.o namespace.o aio.o \ seq_file.o xattr.o libfs.o fs-writeback.o \ - pnode.o drop_caches.o splice.o sync.o + pnode.o drop_caches.o splice.o sync.o utimes.o ifeq ($(CONFIG_BLOCK),y) obj-y += buffer.o bio.o block_dev.o direct-io.o mpage.o ioprio.o -- cgit v1.2.2