[RFC v3 01/45] vfs: Minor documentation fix

From: Andreas Gruenbacher
Date: Fri Apr 24 2015 - 07:05:01 EST


The check_acl inode operation and the IPERM_FLAG_RCU are long gone.
Document what get_acl does instead.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/filesystems/porting | 8 ++++----
Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt | 3 +++
2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting b/Documentation/filesystems/porting
index fa2db08..d6f9ab4 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting
@@ -379,10 +379,10 @@ 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_FLAG_RCU).
-See Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt for more details.
+ permission is an inode permission check that is called on many or all
+directory inodes on the way down a path walk (to check for exec permission). It
+must now be rcu-walk aware (mask & MAY_NOT_BLOCK). See
+Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt for more details.

--
[mandatory]
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
index 966b228..700cdf6 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
@@ -457,6 +457,9 @@ otherwise noted.
If a situation is encountered that rcu-walk cannot handle, return
-ECHILD and it will be called again in ref-walk mode.

+ get_acl: called by the VFS to get the posix acl of an inode. Called during
+ permission checks. The returned acl is cached in the inode.
+
setattr: called by the VFS to set attributes for a file. This method
is called by chmod(2) and related system calls.

--
2.1.0

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