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authorDmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>2018-07-20 21:56:50 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2018-07-20 23:44:35 -0700
commit9944e894c1266dc8515c82d1ff752d681215526b (patch)
tree38b9c8de3fb5c789d3e57f0f05cd4acbd075407b /include/linux/device.h
parentd028b6f703209dbe96201b2714ff46625877128e (diff)
downloadlinux-9944e894c1266dc8515c82d1ff752d681215526b.tar.bz2
driver core: set up ownership of class devices in sysfs
Plumb in get_ownership() callback for devices belonging to a class so that they can be created with uid/gid different from global root. This will allow network devices in a container to belong to container's root and not global root. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/device.h b/include/linux/device.h
index 055a69dbcd18..fe6ccb6dc119 100644
--- a/include/linux/device.h
+++ b/include/linux/device.h
@@ -384,6 +384,9 @@ int subsys_virtual_register(struct bus_type *subsys,
* @shutdown_pre: Called at shut-down time before driver shutdown.
* @ns_type: Callbacks so sysfs can detemine namespaces.
* @namespace: Namespace of the device belongs to this class.
+ * @get_ownership: Allows class to specify uid/gid of the sysfs directories
+ * for the devices belonging to the class. Usually tied to
+ * device's namespace.
* @pm: The default device power management operations of this class.
* @p: The private data of the driver core, no one other than the
* driver core can touch this.
@@ -413,6 +416,8 @@ struct class {
const struct kobj_ns_type_operations *ns_type;
const void *(*namespace)(struct device *dev);
+ void (*get_ownership)(struct device *dev, kuid_t *uid, kgid_t *gid);
+
const struct dev_pm_ops *pm;
struct subsys_private *p;