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authorAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2011-06-21 03:56:31 +0200
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2011-07-20 07:43:36 +0200
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parentmerge do_revalidate() into its only caller (diff)
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->permission() sanitizing: document API changes
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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@@ -400,10 +400,14 @@ a file off.
--
[mandatory]
-
---
-[mandatory]
->get_sb() is gone. Switch to use of ->mount(). Typically it's just
a matter of switching from calling get_sb_... to mount_... and changing the
function type. If you were doing it manually, just switch from setting ->mnt_root
to some pointer to returning that pointer. On errors return ERR_PTR(...).
+
+--
+[mandatory]
+ ->permission(), generic_permission() and ->check_acl() have lost flags
+argument; instead of passing IPERM_FLAG_RCU we add MAY_NOT_BLOCK into mask.
+ generic_permission() has also lost the check_acl argument; if you want
+non-NULL to be used for that inode, put it into ->i_op->check_acl.