linux-kernel - Re: [RFD 0/4] AppArmor - Don't pass NULL nameidata to vfs

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Message-ID: <20070630091530.GC21784@infradead.org>
Date:	Sat, 30 Jun 2007 10:15:30 +0100
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@....uio.no>
Cc:	jjohansen@...e.de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFD 0/4] AppArmor - Don't pass NULL nameidata to vfs_create/lookup/permission IOPs

On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 07:46:15PM -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> I don't object to the concept per se, but could you please give it a
> more descriptive name please? "struct vfs_intent" would be a lot more
> accurate than "nameidata2".

Agreed, but I prefer lookup_intent - intent by itself is a word with
just to wide useage and vfs doesn't make it much clearer..

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