Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 8 Sep 2009 08:20:20 +1000 (EST) | From | James Morris <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 5/8] Make 'check_acl()' a first-class filesystem op |
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On Mon, 7 Sep 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> > Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 11:51:25 -0700 > > This is stage one in flattening out the callchains for the common > permission testing. Rather than have most filesystem implemnt their > inode->i_op->permission own function that just calls back down to the > VFS layers 'generic_permission()' with the per-filesystem ACL checking > function, the filesystem can just expose its 'check_acl' function > directly, and let the VFS layer do everything for it. > > This is all just preparatory - no filesystem actually enables this yet. > > Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
-- James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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