Re: [PATCH v2 02/17] security: make security_file_set_fowner, f_setown and __f_setown void return

Christoph Hellwig
2014-09-04T17:47:05Z

On Thu, Sep 04, 2014 at 08:38:28AM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote:
> security_file_set_fowner always returns 0, so make it f_setown and
> __f_setown void return functions and fix up the error handling in the
> callers.

All the LSMs seems to use this purely for setting up pointers, and not
having to handle errors in the locking code for it will make life a lot
simpler. I like this a lot.

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>