cifs-utils/mount.cifs.rst-update-section-about-xattr-acl-suppor.patch

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From 4718e09e4b15b957bf9d729793bc3de7caad8134 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paulo Alcantara <pc@manguebit.com>
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2024 22:24:25 -0300
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] mount.cifs.rst: update section about xattr/acl support
Update section about required xattr/acl support for UID/GID mapping.
Signed-off-by: Paulo Alcantara (Red Hat) <pc@manguebit.com>
---
mount.cifs.rst | 26 +++++++++++++++++++-------
1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mount.cifs.rst b/mount.cifs.rst
index 64127b23cf17..d82a13c932b3 100644
--- a/mount.cifs.rst
+++ b/mount.cifs.rst
@@ -321,11 +321,12 @@ soft
noacl
Do not allow POSIX ACL operations even if server would support them.
- The CIFS client can get and set POSIX ACLs (getfacl, setfacl) to Samba
- servers version 3.0.10 and later. Setting POSIX ACLs requires enabling
- both ``CIFS_XATTR`` and then ``CIFS_POSIX`` support in the CIFS
- configuration options when building the cifs module. POSIX ACL support
- can be disabled on a per mount basis by specifying ``noacl`` on mount.
+ The CIFS client can get and set POSIX ACLs (getfacl, setfacl) to
+ Samba servers version 3.0.10 and later. Setting POSIX ACLs requires
+ enabling both ``CONFIG_CIFS_XATTR`` and then ``CONFIG_CIFS_POSIX``
+ support in the CIFS configuration options when building the cifs
+ module. POSIX ACL support can be disabled on a per mount basis by
+ specifying ``noacl`` on mount.
cifsacl
This option is used to map CIFS/NTFS ACLs to/from Linux permission
@@ -762,8 +763,19 @@ bits, and POSIX ACL as user authentication model. This is the most
common authentication model for CIFS servers and is the one used by
Windows.
-Support for this requires both CIFS_XATTR and CIFS_ACL support in the
-CIFS configuration options when building the cifs module.
+Support for this requires cifs kernel module built with both
+``CONFIG_CIFS_XATTR`` and ``CONFIG_CIFS_ACL`` options enabled. Since
+Linux 5.3, ``CONFIG_CIFS_ACL`` option no longer exists as CIFS/NTFS
+ACL support is always built into cifs kernel module.
+
+Most distribution kernels will already have those options enabled by
+default, but you can still check if they are enabled with::
+
+ cat /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/build/.config
+
+Alternatively, if kernel is configured with ``CONFIG_IKCONFIG_PROC``::
+
+ zcat /proc/config.gz
A CIFS/NTFS ACL is mapped to file permission bits using an algorithm
specified in the following Microsoft TechNet document:
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