Re: [PATCH v13 02/51] vfs: Add MAY_CREATE_FILE and MAY_CREATE_DIR permission flags

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On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 3:33 AM, Andreas Dilger <adilger@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Nov 3, 2015, at 8:16 AM, Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> @@ -3667,7 +3674,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(dentry_unhash);
>>
>> int vfs_rmdir(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry)
>> {
>> -     int error = may_delete(dir, dentry, 1);
>> +     int error = may_delete(dir, dentry, true, false);
>
> This is a prime example why passing "true" and "false" as function arguments
> is not very useful, and especially prone to bugs when there are two of them.
>
> That said, this is code originally from Al, so he may have a different
> opinion.

Have you checked how vfs_rename uses the is_dir and new_is_dir
variables? Using file modes there probably won't help readability. An
enum maybe?

Thanks,
Andreas
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