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Commit 8fd90c8d authored by Andreas Gruenbacher's avatar Andreas Gruenbacher Committed by root
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vfs: indicate that the permission functions take all the MAY_* flags 



Acked-by: default avatarJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
Acked-by: default avatarDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndreas Gruenbacher <agruen@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
parent 1448c721

fs/namei.c

+2 −2
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@@ -257,7 +257,7 @@ static int acl_permission_check(struct inode *inode, int mask) 
/**

 * generic_permission -  check for access rights on a Posix-like filesystem

 * @inode:	inode to check access rights for

 * @mask:	right to check for (%MAY_READ, %MAY_WRITE, %MAY_EXEC)

 * @mask:	right to check for (%MAY_READ, %MAY_WRITE, %MAY_EXEC, ...)

 *

 * Used to check for read/write/execute permissions on a file.

 * We use "fsuid" for this, letting us set arbitrary permissions
@@ -331,7 +331,7 @@ static inline int do_inode_permission(struct inode *inode, int mask) 
/**

 * inode_permission  -  check for access rights to a given inode

 * @inode:	inode to check permission on

 * @mask:	right to check for (%MAY_READ, %MAY_WRITE, %MAY_EXEC)

 * @mask:	right to check for (%MAY_READ, %MAY_WRITE, %MAY_EXEC, ...)

 *

 * Used to check for read/write/execute permissions on an inode.

 * We use "fsuid" for this, letting us set arbitrary permissions