[Virtio-fs] [RESEND] [PATCHv4 1/2] uapi: fuse: Add FUSE_SECURITY_CTX

[Chirantan Ekbote]

On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 6:09 PM Chirantan Ekbote <chirantan at chromium.org> wrote:
>
> Add the FUSE_SECURITY_CTX flag for the `flags` field of the
> fuse_init_out struct.  When this flag is set the kernel will append the
> security context for a newly created inode to the request (create,
> mkdir, mknod, and symlink).  The server is responsible for ensuring that
> the inode appears atomically with the requested security context.
>
> For example, if the server is backed by a "real" linux file system then
> it can write the security context value to
> /proc/thread-self/attr/fscreate before making the syscall to create the
> inode.
>

Friendly ping. Will this (and the next patch in the series) be merged into 5.9?

Chirantan


Chirantan