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fs: take the ACL checks to common code

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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>
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Christoph Hellwig
2011-07-23 17:37:31 +02:00
committed by Al Viro
parent edde854e8b
commit 4e34e719e4
52 changed files with 92 additions and 294 deletions
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Documentation/filesystems/Locking
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@@ -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

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Documentation/filesystems/porting
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@@ -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]

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Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
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@@ -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);