Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6:
  fs: take the ACL checks to common code
  bury posix_acl_..._masq() variants
  kill boilerplates around posix_acl_create_masq()
  generic_acl: no need to clone acl just to push it to set_cached_acl()
  kill boilerplate around posix_acl_chmod_masq()
  reiserfs: cache negative ACLs for v1 stat format
  xfs: cache negative ACLs if there is no attribute fork
  9p: do no return 0 from ->check_acl without actually checking
  vfs: move ACL cache lookup into generic code
  CIFS: Fix oops while mounting with prefixpath
  xfs: Fix wrong return value of xfs_file_aio_write
  fix devtmpfs race
  caam: don't pass bogus S_IFCHR to debugfs_create_...()
  get rid of create_proc_entry() abuses - proc_mkdir() is there for purpose
  asus-wmi: ->is_visible() can't return negative
  fix jffs2 ACLs on big-endian with 16bit mode_t
  9p: close ACL leaks
  ocfs2_init_acl(): fix a leak
  VFS : mount lock scalability for internal mounts

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);