linux-kernel - [PATCH -V4 01/11] vfs: Indicate that the permission functions take all the MAY

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Message-Id: <1285332494-12756-2-git-send-email-aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date:	Fri, 24 Sep 2010 18:18:04 +0530
From:	"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	sfrench@...ibm.com, ffilz@...ibm.com, agruen@...e.de,
	adilger@....com, sandeen@...hat.com, tytso@....edu,
	bfields@...i.umich.edu, jlayton@...hat.com
Cc:	aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	nfsv4@...ux-nfs.org, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH -V4 01/11] vfs: Indicate that the permission functions take all the MAY_* flags

From: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@...e.de>

Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@...e.de>
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 fs/namei.c |    6 +++---
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index 24896e8..c5920b5 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ static int acl_permission_check(struct inode *inode, int mask,
 /**
  * generic_permission  -  check for access rights on a Posix-like filesystem
  * @inode:	inode to check access rights for
- * @mask:	right to check for (%MAY_READ, %MAY_WRITE, %MAY_EXEC)
+ * @mask:	right to check for (%MAY_READ, %MAY_WRITE, %MAY_EXEC, ...)
  * @check_acl:	optional callback to check for Posix ACLs
  *
  * Used to check for read/write/execute permissions on a file.
@@ -242,7 +242,7 @@ int generic_permission(struct inode *inode, int mask,
 /**
  * inode_permission  -  check for access rights to a given inode
  * @inode:	inode to check permission on
- * @mask:	right to check for (%MAY_READ, %MAY_WRITE, %MAY_EXEC)
+ * @mask:	right to check for (%MAY_READ, %MAY_WRITE, %MAY_EXEC, ...)
  *
  * Used to check for read/write/execute permissions on an inode.
  * We use "fsuid" for this, letting us set arbitrary permissions
@@ -288,7 +288,7 @@ int inode_permission(struct inode *inode, int mask)
 /**
  * file_permission  -  check for additional access rights to a given file
  * @file:	file to check access rights for
- * @mask:	right to check for (%MAY_READ, %MAY_WRITE, %MAY_EXEC)
+ * @mask:	right to check for (%MAY_READ, %MAY_WRITE, %MAY_EXEC, ...)
  *
  * Used to check for read/write/execute permissions on an already opened
  * file.
-- 
1.7.0.4

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