From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: hch@infradead.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, drepper@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [patch 13/15] vfs: utimes cleanup
Date: Mon, 5 May 2008 09:04:47 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080505130447.GA18449@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1Jszyt-0005wE-Ue@pomaz-ex.szeredi.hu>
On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 02:39:47PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> > checks into it aswell, even if that means a little flag telling if
> > file->f_mode should be checked or vfs_permission().
>
> How would that be better? There's zero commonality between the two
> kinds of permission checks (other than utimes_need_permission()).
it looks very similar. but actually given that the next patch removes
the IS_IMMUTABLE check in the fd case it isn't anymore. You're probably
right that it doesn't make sense to move it to the common one.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-05 13:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-05 9:54 [patch 00/15] VFS fixes and cleanups Miklos Szeredi
2008-05-05 9:54 ` [patch 01/15] ecryptfs: clean up (un)lock_parent Miklos Szeredi
2008-05-05 10:59 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-05-05 9:54 ` [patch 02/15] nfsd: clean up mnt_want_write calls Miklos Szeredi
2008-05-05 10:59 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-05-05 9:54 ` [patch 03/15] cgroup: dont call vfs_mkdir Miklos Szeredi
2008-05-05 11:00 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-05-05 12:32 ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-05-05 13:08 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-05-05 13:29 ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-05-05 13:33 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-05-05 13:43 ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-05-05 13:46 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-05-05 13:57 ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-05-05 17:22 ` Paul Menage
2008-05-05 9:54 ` [patch 04/15] reiserfs: dont call vfs_rmdir Miklos Szeredi
2008-05-05 9:54 ` [patch 05/15] reiserfs: dont call notify_change Miklos Szeredi
2008-05-05 9:54 ` [patch 06/15] sysfs: " Miklos Szeredi
2008-05-06 4:15 ` Greg KH
2008-05-06 6:28 ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-05-06 6:48 ` Greg KH
2008-05-05 9:54 ` [patch 07/15] hpfs: " Miklos Szeredi
2008-05-08 0:42 ` Mikulas Patocka
2008-05-05 9:54 ` [patch 08/15] fat: " Miklos Szeredi
2008-05-05 19:45 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2008-05-06 8:49 ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-05-06 9:27 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2008-05-05 9:54 ` [patch 09/15] vfs: immutable inode checking cleanup Miklos Szeredi
2008-05-05 11:01 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-05-05 9:54 ` [patch 10/15] vfs: truncate: dont check immutable twice Miklos Szeredi
2008-05-05 11:04 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-05-05 9:54 ` [patch 11/15] vfs: truncate: append-only checking cleanup Miklos Szeredi
2008-05-05 11:12 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-05-05 9:54 ` [patch 12/15] vfs: create file_truncate() helper Miklos Szeredi
2008-05-05 11:06 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-05-05 12:35 ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-05-05 9:54 ` [patch 13/15] vfs: utimes cleanup Miklos Szeredi
2008-05-05 11:30 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-05-05 12:39 ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-05-05 13:04 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2008-05-05 9:54 ` [patch 14/15] vfs: utimes immutable fix Miklos Szeredi
2008-05-05 11:14 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-05-05 9:54 ` [patch 15/15] vfs: splice remove_suid() cleanup Miklos Szeredi
2008-05-05 11:11 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-05-07 7:20 ` Jens Axboe
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