[PATCH] add a vfs_permission helper
Most permission() calls have a struct nameidata * available. This helper
takes that as an argument and thus makes sure we pass it down for lookup
intents and prepares for per-mount read-only support where we need a struct
vfsmount for checking whether a file is writeable.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c
index 5a4e3ac..7bbb781 100644
--- a/fs/exec.c
+++ b/fs/exec.c
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@
if (!S_ISREG(nd.dentry->d_inode->i_mode))
goto exit;
- error = permission(nd.dentry->d_inode, MAY_READ | MAY_EXEC, &nd);
+ error = vfs_permission(&nd, MAY_READ | MAY_EXEC);
if (error)
goto exit;
@@ -495,7 +495,7 @@
file = ERR_PTR(-EACCES);
if (!(nd.mnt->mnt_flags & MNT_NOEXEC) &&
S_ISREG(inode->i_mode)) {
- int err = permission(inode, MAY_EXEC, &nd);
+ int err = vfs_permission(&nd, MAY_EXEC);
if (!err && !(inode->i_mode & 0111))
err = -EACCES;
file = ERR_PTR(err);