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| author | Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> | 2011-07-23 17:37:31 +0200 |
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| committer | Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> | 2011-07-25 14:30:23 -0400 |
| commit | 4e34e719e457f2e031297175410fc0bd4016a085 (patch) | |
| tree | ab969a371e0d2efc6bfbf503ca6cdfce3af3bf6c /Documentation/filesystems | |
| parent | edde854e8bb34a7f32fa993d721f1da0faf64165 (diff) | |
| download | op-kernel-dev-4e34e719e457f2e031297175410fc0bd4016a085.zip op-kernel-dev-4e34e719e457f2e031297175410fc0bd4016a085.tar.gz | |
fs: take the ACL checks to common code
Replace the ->check_acl method with a ->get_acl method that simply reads an
ACL from disk after having a cache miss. This means we can replace the ACL
checking boilerplate code with a single implementation in namei.c.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/Locking | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/porting | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt | 2 |
3 files changed, 7 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking index ca7e252..7e46991 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking @@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ ata *); void (*put_link) (struct dentry *, struct nameidata *, void *); void (*truncate) (struct inode *); int (*permission) (struct inode *, int, unsigned int); - int (*check_acl)(struct inode *, int); + int (*get_acl)(struct inode *, int); int (*setattr) (struct dentry *, struct iattr *); int (*getattr) (struct vfsmount *, struct dentry *, struct kstat *); int (*setxattr) (struct dentry *, const char *,const void *,size_t,int); @@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ put_link: no truncate: yes (see below) setattr: yes permission: no (may not block if called in rcu-walk mode) -check_acl: no +get_acl: no getattr: no setxattr: yes getxattr: no diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting b/Documentation/filesystems/porting index 7f8861d..b4a3d76 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting @@ -407,10 +407,11 @@ to some pointer to returning that pointer. On errors return ERR_PTR(...). -- [mandatory] - ->permission(), generic_permission() and ->check_acl() have lost flags + ->permission() and generic_permission()have lost flags argument; instead of passing IPERM_FLAG_RCU we add MAY_NOT_BLOCK into mask. - generic_permission() has also lost the check_acl argument; if you want -non-NULL to be used for that inode, put it into ->i_op->check_acl. + generic_permission() has also lost the check_acl argument; ACL checking +has been taken to VFS and filesystems need to provide a non-NULL ->i_op->get_acl +to read an ACL from disk. -- [mandatory] diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt index eff6617..52d8fb8 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt @@ -356,7 +356,7 @@ struct inode_operations { void (*put_link) (struct dentry *, struct nameidata *, void *); void (*truncate) (struct inode *); int (*permission) (struct inode *, int); - int (*check_acl)(struct inode *, int); + int (*get_acl)(struct inode *, int); int (*setattr) (struct dentry *, struct iattr *); int (*getattr) (struct vfsmount *mnt, struct dentry *, struct kstat *); int (*setxattr) (struct dentry *, const char *,const void *,size_t,int); |
