fs: add get_acl helper
Factor out the code to get an ACL either from the inode or disk from
check_acl, so that it can be used elsewhere later on.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
diff --git a/fs/posix_acl.c b/fs/posix_acl.c
index 359d70b..30524de 100644
--- a/fs/posix_acl.c
+++ b/fs/posix_acl.c
@@ -26,6 +26,33 @@
EXPORT_SYMBOL(posix_acl_equiv_mode);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(posix_acl_from_mode);
+struct posix_acl *get_acl(struct inode *inode, int type)
+{
+ struct posix_acl *acl;
+
+ acl = get_cached_acl(inode, type);
+ if (acl != ACL_NOT_CACHED)
+ return acl;
+
+ if (!IS_POSIXACL(inode))
+ return NULL;
+
+ /*
+ * A filesystem can force a ACL callback by just never filling the
+ * ACL cache. But normally you'd fill the cache either at inode
+ * instantiation time, or on the first ->get_acl call.
+ *
+ * If the filesystem doesn't have a get_acl() function at all, we'll
+ * just create the negative cache entry.
+ */
+ if (!inode->i_op->get_acl) {
+ set_cached_acl(inode, type, NULL);
+ return NULL;
+ }
+ return inode->i_op->get_acl(inode, type);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(get_acl);
+
/*
* Init a fresh posix_acl
*/