Re: [RFC PATCH] fanotify, inotify, dnotify, security: add security hook for fs notifications

From: Randy Dunlap
Date: Wed Jul 10 2019 - 12:49:51 EST


On 7/10/19 9:38 AM, Casey Schaufler wrote:
> On 7/10/2019 6:34 AM, Aaron Goidel wrote:

>> @@ -3261,6 +3262,26 @@ static int selinux_inode_removexattr(struct dentry *dentry, const char *name)
>> return -EACCES;
>> }
>>
>> +static int selinux_inode_notify(struct inode *inode, u64 mask)
>> +{
>> + u32 perm = FILE__WATCH; // basic permission, can a watch be set?
>
> We don't use // comments in the Linux kernel.
>

I thought that we had recently moved into the 21st century on that issue,
but I don't see it mentioned in coding-style.rst. Maybe we need a Doc update.

checkpatch allows C99 comments by default.
Joe, do you recall about this?

thanks.
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~Randy