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authorChristian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>2021-01-21 14:19:22 +0100
committerChristian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>2021-01-24 14:27:16 +0100
commit02f92b3868a1b34ab98464e76b0e4e060474ba10 (patch)
tree355710b868f8a26f8fd5ba413938f92f8a24b68a /fs/notify/inotify
parentfs: add id translation helpers (diff)
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fs: add file and path permissions helpers
Add two simple helpers to check permissions on a file and path respectively and convert over some callers. It simplifies quite a few codepaths and also reduces the churn in later patches quite a bit. Christoph also correctly points out that this makes codepaths (e.g. ioctls) way easier to follow that would otherwise have to do more complex argument passing than necessary. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210121131959.646623-4-christian.brauner@ubuntu.com Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: James Morris <jamorris@linux.microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/notify/inotify')
-rw-r--r--fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c b/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c
index 59c177011a0f..e1155d32ef6f 100644
--- a/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c
+++ b/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c
@@ -352,7 +352,7 @@ static int inotify_find_inode(const char __user *dirname, struct path *path,
if (error)
return error;
/* you can only watch an inode if you have read permissions on it */
- error = inode_permission(path->dentry->d_inode, MAY_READ);
+ error = path_permission(path, MAY_READ);
if (error) {
path_put(path);
return error;