fs: provide rcu-walk aware permission i_ops
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting b/Documentation/filesystems/porting
index cd9756a..07a32b4 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting
@@ -380,3 +380,8 @@
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.