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authorChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>2011-07-23 17:37:31 +0200
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2011-07-25 14:30:23 -0400
commit4e34e719e457f2e031297175410fc0bd4016a085 (patch)
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parentedde854e8bb34a7f32fa993d721f1da0faf64165 (diff)
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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/Locking4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/porting7
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt2
3 files changed, 7 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
index ca7e25292542..7e4699146fe1 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 7f8861d341ea..b4a3d765ff9a 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 eff6617c9a0f..52d8fb81cfff 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);