linux-kernel - [PATCH -V8 01/26] vfs: Indicate that the permission functions take all the MAY

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Date:	Sun, 23 Oct 2011 23:13:30 +0530
From:	"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	agruen@...nel.org, bfields@...ldses.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, dhowells@...hat.com
Cc:	aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH -V8 01/26] vfs: Indicate that the permission functions take all the MAY_* flags

From: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@...nel.org>

Acked-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@...hat.com>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 fs/namei.c |    4 ++--
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index 0b3138d..2a4574f 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -257,7 +257,7 @@ other_perms:
 /**
  * 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, ...)
  *
  * Used to check for read/write/execute permissions on a file.
  * We use "fsuid" for this, letting us set arbitrary permissions
@@ -331,7 +331,7 @@ static inline int do_inode_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
-- 
1.7.5.4

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