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vfs: indicate that the permission functions take all the MAY_* flags
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Acked-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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Andreas Gruenbacher authored and root committed Oct 28, 2011
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Expand Up @@ -257,7 +257,7 @@ static int acl_permission_check(struct inode *inode, int mask)
/**
* 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
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/**
* 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
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