Re: [PATCH -V6 10/26] vfs: Make the inode passed to inode_change_ok non-const

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On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 10:55:32PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> From: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> We will need to call iop->permission and iop->get_acl from
> inode_change_ok() for additional permission checks, and both take a
> non-const inode.

OK, the essential difference being that richacls have a say in whether
we can change attributes or not, which posix acls (for example) don't?

--b.

> 
> Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  fs/attr.c          |    2 +-
>  include/linux/fs.h |    2 +-
>  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/attr.c b/fs/attr.c
> index 538e279..f15e9e3 100644
> --- a/fs/attr.c
> +++ b/fs/attr.c
> @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
>   * Should be called as the first thing in ->setattr implementations,
>   * possibly after taking additional locks.
>   */
> -int inode_change_ok(const struct inode *inode, struct iattr *attr)
> +int inode_change_ok(struct inode *inode, struct iattr *attr)
>  {
>  	unsigned int ia_valid = attr->ia_valid;
>  
> diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
> index c5c98c5..8afb054 100644
> --- a/include/linux/fs.h
> +++ b/include/linux/fs.h
> @@ -2568,7 +2568,7 @@ extern int buffer_migrate_page(struct address_space *,
>  #define buffer_migrate_page NULL
>  #endif
>  
> -extern int inode_change_ok(const struct inode *, struct iattr *);
> +extern int inode_change_ok(struct inode *, struct iattr *);
>  extern int inode_newsize_ok(const struct inode *, loff_t offset);
>  extern void setattr_copy(struct inode *inode, const struct iattr *attr);
>  
> -- 
> 1.7.4.1
> 
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