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[PATCH] add a vfs_permission helper

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Most permission() calls have a struct nameidata * available.  This helper
takes that as an argument and thus makes sure we pass it down for lookup
intents and prepares for per-mount read-only support where we need a struct
vfsmount for checking whether a file is writeable.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Christoph Hellwig
2005-11-08 21:35:04 -08:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent e4a53cbabc
commit e4543eddfd
7 changed files with 31 additions and 15 deletions
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@ -372,7 +372,7 @@ static int find_inode(const char __user *dirname, struct nameidata *nd)
if (error)
return error;
/* you can only watch an inode if you have read permissions on it */
error = permission(nd->dentry->d_inode, MAY_READ, NULL);
error = vfs_permission(nd, MAY_READ);
if (error)
path_release(nd);
return error;