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authorAndreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>2015-06-05 01:11:22 +0200
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>2015-06-05 08:45:47 +0900
commit47016077b665b274c6c18f660a9a60898284e700 (patch)
tree7e84a90961b9f9a5059b7ab6a08962ec9e01cf49 /Documentation/filesystems
parent03e8f01a67d6fc02fafc1b23394cc750fec290e1 (diff)
vfs: Minor documentation fix
The check_acl inode operation and the IPERM_FLAG_RCU flag are long gone; update the documentation. Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting b/Documentation/filesystems/porting
index e69274de8d0c..7a34c7eba610 100644
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@@ -379,10 +379,10 @@ may now be called in rcu-walk mode (nd->flags & LOOKUP_RCU). -ECHILD should be
returned if the filesystem cannot handle rcu-walk. See
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_FLAG_RCU).
-See Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt for more details.
+ permission is an inode permission check that is called on many or all
+directory inodes on the way down a path walk (to check for exec permission). It
+must now be rcu-walk aware (mask & MAY_NOT_BLOCK). See
+Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt for more details.
--
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