Re: [patch resend] vfs: move executable checking into->permission()

[Al Viro]

On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 01:41:58PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> On Thu, 31 Jul 2008, Al Viro wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 03:02:03PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> > >  static int coda_ioctl_permission(struct inode *inode, int mask)
> > >  {
> > > -        return 0;
> > > +	return check_execute(dentry->d_inode, mask);
> > >  }
> > 
> > Er?
> > 	a) mismerge from dentry-based variant
> 
> Yeah, crappy patch.  Agree on all other comments as well, thanks for
> the review.
 
Hrm...  OK, behaviour change for permission() on bdev/cdev/pipe is
not a problems...

I'll apply it, but if anybody has better suggestions for helper name,
please yell.  "execute_ok()" sounds very odd...
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