From patchwork Mon Sep 5 17:25:23 2011 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" X-Patchwork-Id: 1125322 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by demeter1.kernel.org (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p85HXWCS011933 for ; Mon, 5 Sep 2011 17:33:37 GMT Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752823Ab1IERdG (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Sep 2011 13:33:06 -0400 Received: from e28smtp09.in.ibm.com ([122.248.162.9]:40959 "EHLO e28smtp09.in.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751969Ab1IER1R (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Sep 2011 13:27:17 -0400 Received: from /spool/local by in.ibm.com with XMail ESMTP for from ; Mon, 5 Sep 2011 22:57:13 +0530 Received: from d28relay03.in.ibm.com ([9.184.220.60]) by in.ibm.com ([192.168.1.139]) with XMail ESMTP; Mon, 5 Sep 2011 22:57:10 +0530 Received: from d28av03.in.ibm.com (d28av03.in.ibm.com [9.184.220.65]) by d28relay03.in.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id p85HR9PK4452422; Mon, 5 Sep 2011 22:57:09 +0530 Received: from d28av03.in.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d28av03.in.ibm.com (8.14.4/8.13.1/NCO v10.0 AVout) with ESMTP id p85HR8bo021353; Tue, 6 Sep 2011 03:27:09 +1000 Received: from skywalker.ibm.com ([9.126.239.225]) by d28av03.in.ibm.com (8.14.4/8.13.1/NCO v10.0 AVin) with ESMTP id p85HR6rI021311; Tue, 6 Sep 2011 03:27:07 +1000 From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" To: agruen@kernel.org, bfields@fieldses.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, dhowells@redhat.com Cc: aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH -V6 01/26] vfs: Indicate that the permission functions take all the MAY_* flags Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2011 22:55:23 +0530 Message-Id: <1315243548-18664-2-git-send-email-aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.4.1 In-Reply-To: <1315243548-18664-1-git-send-email-aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> References: <1315243548-18664-1-git-send-email-aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> x-cbid: 11090517-2674-0000-0000-00000042DAC7 Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org X-Greylist: IP, sender and recipient auto-whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.6 (demeter1.kernel.org [140.211.167.41]); Mon, 05 Sep 2011 17:33:38 +0000 (UTC) From: Andreas Gruenbacher Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V --- fs/namei.c | 4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c index 2826db3..9efc638 100644 --- a/fs/namei.c +++ b/fs/namei.c @@ -257,7 +257,7 @@ other_perms: /** * generic_permission - check for access rights on a Posix-like filesystem * @inode: inode to check access rights for - * @mask: right to check for (%MAY_READ, %MAY_WRITE, %MAY_EXEC) + * @mask: right to check for (%MAY_READ, %MAY_WRITE, %MAY_EXEC, ...) * * Used to check for read/write/execute permissions on a file. * We use "fsuid" for this, letting us set arbitrary permissions @@ -331,7 +331,7 @@ static inline int do_inode_permission(struct inode *inode, int mask) /** * inode_permission - check for access rights to a given inode * @inode: inode to check permission on - * @mask: right to check for (%MAY_READ, %MAY_WRITE, %MAY_EXEC) + * @mask: right to check for (%MAY_READ, %MAY_WRITE, %MAY_EXEC, ...) * * Used to check for read/write/execute permissions on an inode. * We use "fsuid" for this, letting us set arbitrary permissions