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authorMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>2014-10-24 00:14:35 +0200
committerAlex Shi <alex.shi@linaro.org>2015-04-17 15:51:00 +0800
commit96bd0c53e4204392144978e5a40f4699570be22b (patch)
tree2159114f3ad15bf5b8a7d6979b3e548fc4799f91
parent5c45fc6a9c14be17ae4d203d35fe82c6b4575de4 (diff)
vfs: export __inode_permission() to modules
We need to be able to check inode permissions (but not filesystem implied permissions) for stackable filesystems. Expose this interface for overlayfs. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> (cherry picked from commit bd5d08569cc379f8366663a61558a9ce17c2e460) Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linaro.org>
-rw-r--r--fs/internal.h1
-rw-r--r--fs/namei.c1
-rw-r--r--include/linux/fs.h1
3 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/internal.h b/fs/internal.h
index 873cdf544d54..dd41b12c13f1 100644
--- a/fs/internal.h
+++ b/fs/internal.h
@@ -42,7 +42,6 @@ extern void __init chrdev_init(void);
/*
* namei.c
*/
-extern int __inode_permission(struct inode *, int);
extern int user_path_mountpoint_at(int, const char __user *, unsigned int, struct path *);
extern int vfs_path_lookup(struct dentry *, struct vfsmount *,
const char *, unsigned int, struct path *);
diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index b987228e6afb..56b30af6a7f6 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -415,6 +415,7 @@ int __inode_permission(struct inode *inode, int mask)
return security_inode_permission(inode, mask);
}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(__inode_permission);
/**
* sb_permission - Check superblock-level permissions
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index 5bcbbf3a0f00..82c78d6a2006 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -2298,6 +2298,7 @@ extern sector_t bmap(struct inode *, sector_t);
#endif
extern int notify_change(struct dentry *, struct iattr *, struct inode **);
extern int inode_permission(struct inode *, int);
+extern int __inode_permission(struct inode *, int);
extern int generic_permission(struct inode *, int);
static inline bool execute_ok(struct inode *inode)