From: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.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
Subject: Re: [patch 06/14] hfsplus: remove hfsplus_permission()
Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 18:30:57 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0805231824370.18302@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1JzZWC-0002M8-UP@pomaz-ex.szeredi.hu>
Hi,
On Fri, 23 May 2008, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> And so I strongly suggest this patch as well. Apparently this feature
> is not even used by anybody, otherwise somebody would have noticed
> when Trond's fix broke execute permission checking on regular files...
And I'm very strongly against this.
If you wanted to rip out the resource inode logic, it would be more than
this.
At worst this code does nothing right now, so why this sudden rush to
remove this without even an attempt of fixing it?
bye, Roman
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-23 16:31 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 [this message]
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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