> > > > 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. > > As soon as I'm done with sysctls... Can't you just do that independently (for now just put a d_find_alias() in there and be done with it)? If you fix every piece of horrid code that you come across, it'll never be done... Miklos -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
