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authorJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>2013-05-09 11:41:04 -0400
committerJames Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>2013-05-12 21:32:38 +1000
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security: clarify cap_inode_getsecctx description
Make it clear that cap_inode_getsecctx shouldn't return success without filling in the context data. Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com> Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>
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diff --git a/include/linux/security.h b/include/linux/security.h
index 4686491852a7..40560f41e3d5 100644
--- a/include/linux/security.h
+++ b/include/linux/security.h
@@ -1392,7 +1392,8 @@ static inline void security_free_mnt_opts(struct security_mnt_opts *opts)
* @ctxlen contains the length of @ctx.
*
* @inode_getsecctx:
- * Returns a string containing all relevant security context information
+ * On success, returns 0 and fills out @ctx and @ctxlen with the security
+ * context for the given @inode.
*
* @inode we wish to get the security context of.
* @ctx is a pointer in which to place the allocated security context.