linux-kernel - Re: [patch 11/14] vfs: move executable checking into ->permission()

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Date:	Fri, 23 May 2008 05:26:26 -0400
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
Cc:	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, hch@...radead.org,
	viro@...IV.linux.org.uk, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 11/14] vfs: move executable checking into ->permission()

On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 07:15:09PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@...e.cz>
> 
> For execute permission on a regular files we need to check if file has
> any execute bits at all, regardless of capabilites.
> 
> This check is normally performed by generic_permission() but was also
> added to the case when the filesystem defines its own ->permission()
> method.  In the latter case the filesystem should be responsible for
> performing this check.
> 
> So create a helper function exec_permission() that checks returns
> -EACCESS if MAY_EXEC is present, the inode is a regular file and no
> execute bits are present in inode->i_mode.
> 
> Call this function from filesystems which don't call
> generic_permission() from their ->permission() methods and which
> aren't already performing this check.  Also remove the check from
> dentry_permission().
> 
> The new code should be equivalent to the old.

There's no point moving this into the filesystem.

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