From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] remove incorrect comment in inode_permission
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 15:04:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081105140429.GB5012@lst.de> (raw)
We now pass on all MAY_ flags to the filesystems permission routines,
so remove the comment stating the contrary.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Index: linux-2.6/fs/namei.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/fs/namei.c 2008-11-04 12:24:15.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6/fs/namei.c 2008-11-04 12:24:38.000000000 +0100
@@ -257,7 +257,6 @@ int inode_permission(struct inode *inode
return -EACCES;
}
- /* Ordinary permission routines do not understand MAY_APPEND. */
if (inode->i_op && inode->i_op->permission)
retval = inode->i_op->permission(inode, mask);
else
next reply other threads:[~2008-11-05 14:04 UTC|newest]
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2008-11-05 14:04 Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2008-11-06 3:47 ` [PATCH] remove incorrect comment in inode_permission Timothy Shimmin
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