summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/include/linux/fs.h
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2021-03-02 04:37:10 +0300
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2021-09-08 09:49:01 +0300
commit40ba433a85dbbf5b2e58f2ac6b161ce37ac872fc (patch)
tree841eff9e26bce82bf4111c4c4f0ca748660fc7f6 /include/linux/fs.h
parentded9137fcf0d729dbe65aa98c411352f40b22970 (diff)
downloadlinux-40ba433a85dbbf5b2e58f2ac6b161ce37ac872fc.tar.xz
new helper: inode_wrong_type()
commit 6e3e2c4362e41a2f18e3f7a5ad81bd2f49a47b85 upstream. inode_wrong_type(inode, mode) returns true if setting inode->i_mode to given value would've changed the inode type. We have enough of those checks open-coded to make a helper worthwhile. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/fs.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/fs.h5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index 8bde32cf9711..43bb6a51e42d 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -2768,6 +2768,11 @@ static inline bool execute_ok(struct inode *inode)
return (inode->i_mode & S_IXUGO) || S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode);
}
+static inline bool inode_wrong_type(const struct inode *inode, umode_t mode)
+{
+ return (inode->i_mode ^ mode) & S_IFMT;
+}
+
static inline void file_start_write(struct file *file)
{
if (!S_ISREG(file_inode(file)->i_mode))