From 02f92b3868a1b34ab98464e76b0e4e060474ba10 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christian Brauner Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2021 14:19:22 +0100 Subject: fs: add file and path permissions helpers Add two simple helpers to check permissions on a file and path respectively and convert over some callers. It simplifies quite a few codepaths and also reduces the churn in later patches quite a bit. Christoph also correctly points out that this makes codepaths (e.g. ioctls) way easier to follow that would otherwise have to do more complex argument passing than necessary. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210121131959.646623-4-christian.brauner@ubuntu.com Cc: David Howells Cc: Al Viro Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Reviewed-by: James Morris Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner --- include/linux/fs.h | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/linux/fs.h') diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h index 3165998e2294..bcd17097d441 100644 --- a/include/linux/fs.h +++ b/include/linux/fs.h @@ -2812,6 +2812,14 @@ static inline int bmap(struct inode *inode, sector_t *block) extern int notify_change(struct dentry *, struct iattr *, struct inode **); extern int inode_permission(struct inode *, int); extern int generic_permission(struct inode *, int); +static inline int file_permission(struct file *file, int mask) +{ + return inode_permission(file_inode(file), mask); +} +static inline int path_permission(const struct path *path, int mask) +{ + return inode_permission(d_inode(path->dentry), mask); +} extern int __check_sticky(struct inode *dir, struct inode *inode); static inline bool execute_ok(struct inode *inode) -- cgit v1.2.3