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[PATCH -V8 04/26] vfs: Add a comment to inode_permission()

From: Aneesh Kumar K.V <hidden>
Date: 2011-10-23 17:43:33
Also in: linux-fsdevel, lkml
Subsystem: filesystems (vfs and infrastructure), the rest · Maintainers: Alexander Viro, Christian Brauner, Linus Torvalds

From: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@kernel.org>

Acked-by: J. Bruce Fields <redacted>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <redacted>
---
 fs/namei.c |    6 ++++--
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index 276cd30..9061157 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -221,7 +221,7 @@ static int check_acl(struct inode *inode, int mask)
 }
 
 /*
- * This does basic POSIX ACL permission checking
+ * This does the basic permission checking
  */
 static int acl_permission_check(struct inode *inode, int mask)
 {
@@ -271,7 +271,7 @@ int generic_permission(struct inode *inode, int mask)
 	int ret;
 
 	/*
-	 * Do the basic POSIX ACL permission checks.
+	 * Do the basic permission checks.
 	 */
 	ret = acl_permission_check(inode, mask);
 	if (ret != -EACCES)
@@ -335,6 +335,8 @@ static inline int do_inode_permission(struct inode *inode, int mask)
  * We use "fsuid" for this, letting us set arbitrary permissions
  * for filesystem access without changing the "normal" uids which
  * are used for other things.
+ *
+ * When checking for MAY_APPEND, MAY_WRITE must also be set in @mask.
  */
 int inode_permission(struct inode *inode, int mask)
 {
-- 
1.7.5.4
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