[f2fs-dev] [PATCH v3 00/10] acl: drop posix acl handlers from xattr handlers

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Hello:

This patch was applied to jaegeuk/f2fs.git (dev)
by Christian Brauner (Microsoft) <brauner at kernel.org>:

On Wed, 01 Feb 2023 14:14:51 +0100 you wrote:
> Hey everyone,
> 
> After we finished the introduction of the new posix acl api last cycle
> we still left the generic POSIX ACL xattr handlers around in the
> filesystems xattr handlers for two reasons:
> 
> (1) Because a few filesystems rely on the ->list() method of the generic
>     POSIX ACL xattr handlers in their ->listxattr() inode operation.
> (2) POSIX ACLs are only available if IOP_XATTR is raised. The IOP_XATTR
>     flag is raised in inode_init_always() based on whether the
>     sb->s_xattr pointer is non-NULL. IOW, the registered xattr handlers
>     of the filesystem are used to raise IOP_XATTR.
>     If we were to remove the generic POSIX ACL xattr handlers from all
>     filesystems we would risk regressing filesystems that only implement
>     POSIX ACL support and no other xattrs (nfs3 comes to mind).
> 
> [...]

Here is the summary with links:
  - [f2fs-dev,v3,05/10] fs: simplify ->listxattr() implementation
    https://git.kernel.org/jaegeuk/f2fs/c/a5488f29835c

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