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Commit 948409c7 authored by Andreas Gruenbacher's avatar Andreas Gruenbacher Committed by root
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vfs: add a comment to inode_permission() 



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 d124b60a

fs/namei.c

+4 −2
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@@ -221,7 +221,7 @@ static int check_acl(struct inode *inode, int mask) 
}



/*

 * This does basic POSIX ACL permission checking

 * This does the basic permission checking

 */

static int acl_permission_check(struct inode *inode, int mask)

{
@@ -271,7 +271,7 @@ int generic_permission(struct inode *inode, int mask) 
	int ret;



	/*

	 * Do the basic POSIX ACL permission checks.

	 * Do the basic permission checks.

	 */

	ret = acl_permission_check(inode, mask);

	if (ret != -EACCES)
@@ -335,6 +335,8 @@ static inline int do_inode_permission(struct inode *inode, int mask) 
 * We use "fsuid" for this, letting us set arbitrary permissions

 * for filesystem access without changing the "normal" uids which

 * are used for other things.

 *

 * When checking for MAY_APPEND, MAY_WRITE must also be set in @mask.

 */

int inode_permission(struct inode *inode, int mask)

{