> > I'm not sure of the correct way to get the required nameidata (to do a > > vfs_permission() call) from the file descriptor. Can you give me a > > tip there? > > Could you point me at the right way of doing this? You don't need nameidata for this at all. Just call permission() with a NULL nameidata. Ugly API? Yes, will be cleaned up if we manage to find some common ground with the VFS maintainers. Miklos -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
