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| author | Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> | 2011-07-23 17:37:31 +0200 |
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| committer | Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> | 2011-07-25 14:30:23 -0400 |
| commit | 4e34e719e457f2e031297175410fc0bd4016a085 (patch) | |
| tree | ab969a371e0d2efc6bfbf503ca6cdfce3af3bf6c /Documentation/filesystems/porting | |
| parent | edde854e8bb34a7f32fa993d721f1da0faf64165 (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/porting')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/porting | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
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] |