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| author | Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> | 2016-04-11 06:48:00 +0200 |
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| committer | Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> | 2016-04-11 06:48:00 +0200 |
| commit | ce23e640133484eebc20ca7b7668388213e11327 (patch) | |
| tree | 0b37de221fe6790396c3ae636bc56e5aacbcaf46 /Documentation/filesystems/porting | |
| parent | xattr_handler: pass dentry and inode as separate arguments of ->get() (diff) | |
| download | linux-ce23e640133484eebc20ca7b7668388213e11327.tar.xz linux-ce23e640133484eebc20ca7b7668388213e11327.zip | |
->getxattr(): pass dentry and inode as separate arguments
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems/porting')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/porting | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting b/Documentation/filesystems/porting index f1b87d8aa2da..57bb3754a027 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting @@ -525,3 +525,9 @@ in your dentry operations instead. set_delayed_call() where it used to set *cookie. ->put_link() is gone - just give the destructor to set_delayed_call() in ->get_link(). +-- +[mandatory] + ->getxattr() and xattr_handler.get() get dentry and inode passed separately. + dentry might be yet to be attached to inode, so do _not_ use its ->d_inode + in the instances. Rationale: !@#!@# security_d_instantiate() needs to be + called before we attach dentry to inode. |