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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0909081904320.2878@sister.anvils>
Date:	Tue, 8 Sep 2009 19:05:42 +0100 (BST)
From:	Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@...cali.co.uk>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Linux Filesystem Mailing List <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Eric Paris <eparis@...hat.com>, Mimi Zohar <zohar@...ibm.com>,
	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/8] shmfs: use 'check_acl' instead of 'permission'

On Mon, 7 Sep 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
> Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 12:04:28 -0700
> 
> shmfs wants purely standard POSIX ACL semantics, so we can use the new
> generic VFS layer POSIX ACL checking rather than cooking our own
> 'permission()' function.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>

Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@...cali.co.uk>

> ---
>  include/linux/shmem_fs.h |    2 +-
>  mm/shmem.c               |    6 +++---
>  mm/shmem_acl.c           |   11 +----------
>  3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
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