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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)
treeab969a371e0d2efc6bfbf503ca6cdfce3af3bf6c /Documentation/filesystems/porting
parentedde854e8bb34a7f32fa993d721f1da0faf64165 (diff)
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>
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@@ -407,10 +407,11 @@ to some pointer to returning that pointer. On errors return ERR_PTR(...).
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[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]