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authorEric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>2010-07-23 11:43:51 -0400
committerJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org>2010-08-02 15:35:06 +1000
commit9cfcac810e8993fa7a5bfd24b1a21f1dbbb03a7b (patch)
tree86fae80c744e46b15b8eb9aa23fead7e63a64159 /include
parent692a8a231b212dfc68f612956d63f34abf098e0f (diff)
downloadlinux-9cfcac810e8993fa7a5bfd24b1a21f1dbbb03a7b.tar.gz
vfs: re-introduce MAY_CHDIR
Currently MAY_ACCESS means that filesystems must check the permissions
right then and not rely on cached results or the results of future
operations on the object.  This can be because of a call to sys_access() or
because of a call to chdir() which needs to check search without relying on
any future operations inside that dir.  I plan to use MAY_ACCESS for other
purposes in the security system, so I split the MAY_ACCESS and the
MAY_CHDIR cases.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Acked-by:  Stephen D. Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/fs.h1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index 68ca1b0491af..7d94b72f0346 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ struct inodes_stat_t {
 #define MAY_APPEND 8
 #define MAY_ACCESS 16
 #define MAY_OPEN 32
+#define MAY_CHDIR 64
 
 /*
  * flags in file.f_mode.  Note that FMODE_READ and FMODE_WRITE must correspond