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    userns: Replace the hard to write inode_userns with inode_capable. · 1a48e2ac
    Eric W. Biederman authored
    
    
    This represents a change in strategy of how to handle user namespaces.
    Instead of tagging everything explicitly with a user namespace and bulking
    up all of the comparisons of uids and gids in the kernel,  all uids and gids
    in use will have a mapping to a flat kuid and kgid spaces respectively.  This
    allows much more of the existing logic to be preserved and in general
    allows for faster code.
    
    In this new and improved world we allow someone to utiliize capabilities
    over an inode if the inodes owner mapps into the capabilities holders user
    namespace and the user has capabilities in their user namespace.  Which
    is simple and efficient.
    
    Moving the fs uid comparisons to be comparisons in a flat kuid space
    follows in later patches, something that is only significant if you
    are using user namespaces.
    
    Acked-by: default avatarSerge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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