From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, hch@infradead.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 07/14] vfs: pass dentry to permission()
Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 21:29:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080521202914.GP28946@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080521171551.453155765@szeredi.hu>
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 07:15:05PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
>
> The following patches clean up the i_op->permission() method and the
> related VFS API.
>
> Here's an overview of the changes:
>
> - ->permission() is passed a dentry instead of an inode
> - ->permission() is passed a integer flags parameter instead of a
> nameidata pointer
No. Take a good look at the instances.
a) only one aberrant case cares about dentry, and for extremely
wrong reasons. /proc/sys/ stuff. ecryptfs, of course, will be happy
with any variant.
b) few flags that are looked at are trivially mapped to new MAY_...
I have a patch series that does it, but it involves tons of fixing the
sysctl handling to be finished ;-/ And yes, we need sysctl to quit
doing the "I want to get ctl_table entry, so I'll do very painful search
by dentry every damn time" in any case - look at that code, it's far
too ugly to live.
IOW, consider this ->permission() API change NAKed.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-21 20:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-21 17:14 [patch 00/14] vfs: permission API cleanup Miklos Szeredi
2008-05-21 17:14 ` [patch 01/14] vfs: add path_getxattr() Miklos Szeredi
2008-05-21 17:15 ` [patch 02/14] vfs: add path_listxattr() Miklos Szeredi
2008-05-21 17:15 ` [patch 03/14] hppfs: remove hppfs_permission Miklos Szeredi
2008-05-23 9:17 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-05-21 17:15 ` [patch 04/14] gfs2: dont call permission() Miklos Szeredi
2008-05-23 9:12 ` Steven Whitehouse
2008-05-23 9:30 ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-05-23 9:32 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-05-23 9:18 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-05-23 9:48 ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-05-23 10:00 ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-05-25 19:24 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-05-23 10:18 ` Steven Whitehouse
2008-05-23 11:01 ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-05-25 19:23 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-05-21 17:15 ` [patch 05/14] hpfs: " Miklos Szeredi
2008-05-23 9:20 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-05-21 17:15 ` [patch 06/14] hfsplus: remove hfsplus_permission() Miklos Szeredi
2008-05-21 20:35 ` Roman Zippel
2008-05-22 7:58 ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-05-22 12:02 ` Roman Zippel
2008-05-22 12:17 ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-05-22 12:28 ` Roman Zippel
2008-05-22 12:37 ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-05-23 9:21 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-05-23 15:18 ` Roman Zippel
2008-05-23 15:31 ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-05-23 15:49 ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-05-23 16:30 ` Roman Zippel
2008-05-23 18:02 ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-05-23 18:33 ` Roman Zippel
2008-05-23 19:05 ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-05-23 21:52 ` Roman Zippel
2008-05-24 6:59 ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-05-23 15:11 ` Roman Zippel
2008-05-21 17:15 ` [patch 07/14] vfs: pass dentry to permission() Miklos Szeredi
2008-05-21 20:29 ` Al Viro [this message]
2008-05-22 7:00 ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-05-22 7:12 ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-05-21 17:15 ` [patch 08/14] vfs: cleanup i_op->permission() Miklos Szeredi
2008-05-21 17:15 ` [patch 09/14] security: dont pass nameidata to security_inode_permission() Miklos Szeredi
2008-05-21 22:52 ` James Morris
2008-05-21 17:15 ` [patch 10/14] vfs: pass flags to dentry_permission() Miklos Szeredi
2008-05-21 17:15 ` [patch 11/14] vfs: move executable checking into ->permission() Miklos Szeredi
2008-05-21 18:16 ` Trond Myklebust
2008-05-21 19:09 ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-05-21 19:26 ` Trond Myklebust
2008-05-21 19:34 ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-05-23 9:26 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-05-23 9:52 ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-05-21 17:15 ` [patch 12/14] vfs: create path_permission() Miklos Szeredi
2008-05-21 17:15 ` [patch 13/14] vfs: dont use dentry_permission() Miklos Szeredi
2008-05-21 17:15 ` [patch 14/14] vfs: path_permission() clean up flags Miklos Szeredi
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