fs: pass dentry to set acl method

The current way of setting and getting posix acls through the generic
xattr interface is error prone and type unsafe. The vfs needs to
interpret and fixup posix acls before storing or reporting it to
userspace. Various hacks exist to make this work. The code is hard to
understand and difficult to maintain in it's current form. Instead of
making this work by hacking posix acls through xattr handlers we are
building a dedicated posix acl api around the get and set inode
operations. This removes a lot of hackiness and makes the codepaths
easier to maintain. A lot of background can be found in [1].

Since some filesystem rely on the dentry being available to them when
setting posix acls (e.g., 9p and cifs) they cannot rely on set acl inode
operation. But since ->set_acl() is required in order to use the generic
posix acl xattr handlers filesystems that do not implement this inode
operation cannot use the handler and need to implement their own
dedicated posix acl handlers.

Update the ->set_acl() inode method to take a dentry argument. This
allows all filesystems to rely on ->set_acl().

As far as I can tell all codepaths can be switched to rely on the dentry
instead of just the inode. Note that the original motivation for passing
the dentry separate from the inode instead of just the dentry in the
xattr handlers was because of security modules that call
security_d_instantiate(). This hook is called during
d_instantiate_new(), d_add(), __d_instantiate_anon(), and
d_splice_alias() to initialize the inode's security context and possibly
to set security.* xattrs. Since this only affects security.* xattrs this
is completely irrelevant for posix acls.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220801145520.1532837-1-brauner@kernel.org [1]
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft) <brauner@kernel.org>

3 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/fs/jffs2/acl.c b/fs/jffs2/acl.c
index e945e3484788..8bb58ce5c06c 100644
--- a/fs/jffs2/acl.c
+++ b/fs/jffs2/acl.c
@@ -229,10 +229,11 @@ static int __jffs2_set_acl(struct inode *inode, int xprefix, struct posix_acl *a
 	return rc;
 }
 
-int jffs2_set_acl(struct user_namespace *mnt_userns, struct inode *inode,
+int jffs2_set_acl(struct user_namespace *mnt_userns, struct dentry *dentry,
 		  struct posix_acl *acl, int type)
 {
 	int rc, xprefix;
+	struct inode *inode = d_inode(dentry);
 
 	switch (type) {
 	case ACL_TYPE_ACCESS:
diff --git a/fs/jffs2/acl.h b/fs/jffs2/acl.h
index 9d9fb7cf093e..ca36a6eca594 100644
--- a/fs/jffs2/acl.h
+++ b/fs/jffs2/acl.h
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ struct jffs2_acl_header {
 #ifdef CONFIG_JFFS2_FS_POSIX_ACL
 
 struct posix_acl *jffs2_get_acl(struct inode *inode, int type, bool rcu);
-int jffs2_set_acl(struct user_namespace *mnt_userns, struct inode *inode,
+int jffs2_set_acl(struct user_namespace *mnt_userns, struct dentry *dentry,
 		  struct posix_acl *acl, int type);
 extern int jffs2_init_acl_pre(struct inode *, struct inode *, umode_t *);
 extern int jffs2_init_acl_post(struct inode *);
diff --git a/fs/jffs2/fs.c b/fs/jffs2/fs.c
index 39cec28096a7..66af51c41619 100644
--- a/fs/jffs2/fs.c
+++ b/fs/jffs2/fs.c
@@ -202,7 +202,7 @@ int jffs2_setattr(struct user_namespace *mnt_userns, struct dentry *dentry,
 
 	rc = jffs2_do_setattr(inode, iattr);
 	if (!rc && (iattr->ia_valid & ATTR_MODE))
-		rc = posix_acl_chmod(&init_user_ns, inode, inode->i_mode);
+		rc = posix_acl_chmod(&init_user_ns, dentry, inode->i_mode);
 
 	return rc;
 }