Messages in this thread | | | From | "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH -V6 10/26] vfs: Make the inode passed to inode_change_ok non-const | Date | Thu, 08 Sep 2011 15:02:15 +0530 |
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On Wed, 7 Sep 2011 16:43:22 -0400, "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 10:55:32PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote: > > From: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@kernel.org> > > > > We will need to call iop->permission and iop->get_acl from > > inode_change_ok() for additional permission checks, and both take a > > non-const inode. > > OK, the essential difference being that richacls have a say in whether > we can change attributes or not, which posix acls (for example) don't? >
yes, next patch explain the details of the check
-aneesh
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