Re: [PATCH][2/7] xattr consolidation - LSM hook changes

[James Morris]

On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 02:16:17PM -0400, James Morris wrote:
> > This patch replaces the dentry parameter with an inode in the LSM
> > inode_{set|get|list}security hooks, in keeping with the ext2/ext3 code.
> > dentries are not needed here.
> 
> Given that the actual methods take a dentry this sounds like a bad design.
> Can;t you just pass down the dentry through all of the ext2 interfaces?

Yes, this can be done, although all that's needed is the inode.


- James
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James Morris
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