Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFD 0/4] AppArmor - Don't pass NULL nameidata to vfs_create/lookup/permission IOPs | From | Trond Myklebust <> | Date | Tue, 26 Jun 2007 19:46:15 -0400 |
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On Tue, 2007-06-26 at 16:15 -0700, jjohansen@suse.de wrote: > To remove conditionally passing of vfsmounts to the LSM, a nameidata > struct can be instantiated in the nfsd and mqueue filesystems. This > however results in useless information being passed down, as not > all fields in the nameidata struct will be meaingful. The nameidata > struct is split creating struct nameidata2 that contains only the > fields > that will carry meaningful information.
I don't object to the concept per se, but could you please give it a more descriptive name please? "struct vfs_intent" would be a lot more accurate than "nameidata2".
Trond
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