linux-kernel - Re: Important for fs devs: rcu-walk merged upstream

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-Id: <E1Pcc5C-0007PC-LS@pomaz-ex.szeredi.hu>
Date:	Tue, 11 Jan 2011 12:08:10 +0100
From:	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
To:	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>
CC:	marco.stornelli@...il.com, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Important for fs devs: rcu-walk merged upstream

On Tue, 11 Jan 2011, Nick Piggin wrote:
> On Saturday, 8 January 2011, Marco Stornelli <marco.stornelli@...il.com> wrote:
> > Il 08/01/2011 03:54, Nick Piggin ha scritto:
> >> The vfs-scale branch is now upstream. If you haven't
> >> looked yet, your filesystem is likely to have been
> >> touched, so check it out.
> >>
> >> Also look at Documentation/filesystems/porting and
> >> path-lookup.txt.
> >
> > Nick, in the porting file I read:
> >
> > ..........hazards on dentries and inodes (see
> > Documentation/filesystems/path-walk.txt). ..........
> >  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >
> > Should it be "path-lookup.txt"?
> >
> > Marco
> >
> 
> Hi, yes thanks I'll fix it

Also you use IPERM_RCU instead of IPERM_FLAG_RCU in the documentation.

Thanks,
Miklos


diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting b/Documentation/filesystems/porting
index 07a32b4..c2819ee 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting
@@ -383,5 +383,5 @@ Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt for more details.
 
 	permission and check_acl are inode permission checks that are called
 on many or all directory inodes on the way down a path walk (to check for
-exec permission). These must now be rcu-walk aware (flags & IPERM_RCU). See
-Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt for more details.
+exec permission). These must now be rcu-walk aware (flags & IPERM_FLAG_RCU).
+See Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt for more details.
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
index fbb324e..de8a967 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
@@ -415,9 +415,9 @@ otherwise noted.
   permission: called by the VFS to check for access rights on a POSIX-like
   	filesystem.
 
-	May be called in rcu-walk mode (flags & IPERM_RCU). If in rcu-walk
-	mode, the filesystem must check the permission without blocking or
-	storing to the inode.
+	May be called in rcu-walk mode (flags & IPERM_FLAG_RCU). If in
+	rcu-walk mode, the filesystem must check the permission without
+	blocking or storing to the inode.
 
 	If a situation is encountered that rcu-walk cannot handle, return
 	-ECHILD and it will be called again in ref-walk mode.
5B5B
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/