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authorNick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>2011-01-07 09:49:58 +0300
committerNick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>2011-01-07 09:50:29 +0300
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fs: provide rcu-walk aware permission i_ops
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
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@@ -380,3 +380,8 @@ the filesystem provides it), which requires dropping out of rcu-walk mode. This
may now be called in rcu-walk mode (nd->flags & LOOKUP_RCU). -ECHILD should be
returned if the filesystem cannot handle rcu-walk. See
Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt for more details.
+
+ permission and check_acl are inode permission checks that are called
+on many or all directory inodes on the way down a path walk (to check for
+exec permission). These must now be rcu-walk aware (flags & IPERM_RCU). See
+Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt for more details.