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

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Message-ID: <20080731161024.GL28946@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Date:	Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:10:24 +0100
From:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
To:	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch resend] vfs: move executable checking into
	->permission()

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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