Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 23 Sep 2009 09:48:16 +0100 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] vfs: new FROM_ACCESS flag |
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Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 01:28:46PM -0400, Eric Paris wrote: > > > only using MAY_ACCESS for calles from access() insteaf of introducing > > > a FROM_ACCESS flag and causing lots of naming confusion. > > > > What would you think of a new, MUST_REVALIDATE_PERMS which will do what > > MAY_ACCESS does today. MAY_ACCESS would be just for access(2) and would > > be the flag that I use for SELinux? > > Yeah, something like this. I don't like the MUST_REVALIDATE_PERMS name > too much, but unless someone comes up with a better one I can live with > it.
MAY_ACCESS is used in only these places:
- access/faccessat - chdir/fchdir - chroot
And it is checked in only two easy to change places: nfs/dir.c and fuse/dir.c.
Therefore how about MAY_CHDIR.
-- Jamie
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