From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: hch@infradead.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
swhiteho@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [patch 04/14] gfs2: dont call permission()
Date: Sun, 25 May 2008 15:24:14 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080525192414.GB1949@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1JzU4Y-0001dS-3H@pomaz-ex.szeredi.hu>
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 12:00:26PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> And that's true of lookup_one_len() as well, the last bit of horror
> left in this permission() saga. It's called from lots of places,
> often for doing things it's not at all meant to do (e.g. where caller
> _knows_ it will return negative, etc...). One day maybe I'll have
> strength to clean that up as well..., but not now.
lookup_one_len is not just a horror for permission, it's a nighmare
in general. I'm not convinced any use of it except for silly renames
is actually valid.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-25 19:24 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 [this message]
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
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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