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Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/kernfs.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/kernfs.h | 19 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/kernfs.h b/include/linux/kernfs.h index 589318b73e61..c841688a78a3 100644 --- a/include/linux/kernfs.h +++ b/include/linux/kernfs.h @@ -50,7 +50,24 @@ enum kernfs_node_flag { /* @flags for kernfs_create_root() */ enum kernfs_root_flag { - KERNFS_ROOT_CREATE_DEACTIVATED = 0x0001, + /* + * kernfs_nodes are created in the deactivated state and invisible. + * They require explicit kernfs_activate() to become visible. This + * can be used to make related nodes become visible atomically + * after all nodes are created successfully. + */ + KERNFS_ROOT_CREATE_DEACTIVATED = 0x0001, + + /* + * For regular flies, if the opener has CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE, open(2) + * succeeds regardless of the RW permissions. sysfs had an extra + * layer of enforcement where open(2) fails with -EACCES regardless + * of CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE if the permission doesn't have the + * respective read or write access at all (none of S_IRUGO or + * S_IWUGO) or the respective operation isn't implemented. The + * following flag enables that behavior. + */ + KERNFS_ROOT_EXTRA_OPEN_PERM_CHECK = 0x0002, }; /* type-specific structures for kernfs_node union members */ |