Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 23 Aug 2004 20:03:53 +0100 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH][2/7] xattr consolidation - LSM hook changes |
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On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 02:16:17PM -0400, James Morris wrote: > This patch replaces the dentry parameter with an inode in the LSM > inode_{set|get|list}security hooks, in keeping with the ext2/ext3 code. > dentries are not needed here.
Given that the actual methods take a dentry this sounds like a bad design. Can;t you just pass down the dentry through all of the ext2 interfaces?
(And again, mid-term these checks should move to the VFS)
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