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authorJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org>2009-02-06 11:01:45 +1100
committerJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org>2009-02-06 11:01:45 +1100
commitcb5629b10d64a8006622ce3a52bc887d91057d69 (patch)
tree7c06d8f30783115e3384721046258ce615b129c5 /Documentation/kobject.txt
parent8920d5ad6ba74ae8ab020e90cc4d976980e68701 (diff)
parentf01d1d546abb2f4028b5299092f529eefb01253a (diff)
downloadlinux-cb5629b10d64a8006622ce3a52bc887d91057d69.tar.gz
Merge branch 'master' into next
Conflicts:
	fs/namei.c

Manually merged per:

diff --cc fs/namei.c
index 734f2b5,bbc15c2..0000000
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@@ -860,9 -848,8 +849,10 @@@ static int __link_path_walk(const char
  		nd->flags |= LOOKUP_CONTINUE;
  		err = exec_permission_lite(inode);
  		if (err == -EAGAIN)
- 			err = vfs_permission(nd, MAY_EXEC);
+ 			err = inode_permission(nd->path.dentry->d_inode,
+ 					       MAY_EXEC);
 +		if (!err)
 +			err = ima_path_check(&nd->path, MAY_EXEC);
   		if (err)
  			break;

@@@ -1525,14 -1506,9 +1509,14 @@@ int may_open(struct path *path, int acc
  		flag &= ~O_TRUNC;
  	}

- 	error = vfs_permission(nd, acc_mode);
+ 	error = inode_permission(inode, acc_mode);
  	if (error)
  		return error;
 +
- 	error = ima_path_check(&nd->path,
++	error = ima_path_check(path,
 +			       acc_mode & (MAY_READ | MAY_WRITE | MAY_EXEC));
 +	if (error)
 +		return error;
  	/*
  	 * An append-only file must be opened in append mode for writing.
  	 */

Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/kobject.txt')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/kobject.txt4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kobject.txt b/Documentation/kobject.txt
index f5d2aad65a67..b2e374586bd8 100644
--- a/Documentation/kobject.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kobject.txt
@@ -118,8 +118,8 @@ the name of the kobject, call kobject_rename():
 
     int kobject_rename(struct kobject *kobj, const char *new_name);
 
-Note kobject_rename does perform any locking or have a solid notion of
-what names are valid so the provide must provide their own sanity checking
+kobject_rename does not perform any locking or have a solid notion of
+what names are valid so the caller must provide their own sanity checking
 and serialization.
 
 There is a function called kobject_set_name() but that is legacy cruft and