linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v18 21/22] ext4: Add richacl support

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Message-ID: <CAHc6FU64SzTN23LMzGcPex=jRz_Euwb_CHrW=kX+A5sn8=SFSg@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Mon, 14 Mar 2016 14:02:33 +0100
From:	Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@...hat.com>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:	Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>,
	Linux NFS Mailing List <linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>, linux-cifs@...r.kernel.org,
	Linux API <linux-api@...r.kernel.org>,
	Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@...marydata.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	XFS Developers <xfs@....sgi.com>,
	Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@...ger.ca>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jeff Layton <jlayton@...chiereds.net>,
	linux-ext4 <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>,
	Anna Schumaker <anna.schumaker@...app.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v18 21/22] ext4: Add richacl support

On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 3:27 PM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org> wrote:
>> +static inline int
>> +ext4_acl_chmod(struct inode *inode, umode_t mode)
>> +{
>> +     if (IS_RICHACL(inode))
>> +             return richacl_chmod(inode, inode->i_mode);
>> +     return posix_acl_chmod(inode, inode->i_mode);
>> +}
>
> Thi isn't ext4-specific and potentially duplicated in every caller.
> Please provide this as a common helper.

This can go in neither fs.h nor posix_acl.h nor richacl.h unless we
turn it into a macro, and I don't think we want to add a new header
file for such extreme trivia.

> Also while we're at it, the mode argument is ignore and the function
> always uses inode->i_mode instead.

Right, thanks.

Andreas