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authorChristian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>2021-01-21 14:19:22 +0100
committerChristian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>2021-01-24 14:27:16 +0100
commit02f92b3868a1b34ab98464e76b0e4e060474ba10 (patch)
tree355710b868f8a26f8fd5ba413938f92f8a24b68a /mm/memcontrol.c
parente6c9a71451560edba343cbcbd500bea0a188f0d1 (diff)
downloadlinux-02f92b3868a1b34ab98464e76b0e4e060474ba10.tar.gz
fs: add file and path permissions helpers
Add two simple helpers to check permissions on a file and path
respectively and convert over some callers. It simplifies quite a few
codepaths and also reduces the churn in later patches quite a bit.
Christoph also correctly points out that this makes codepaths (e.g.
ioctls) way easier to follow that would otherwise have to do more
complex argument passing than necessary.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210121131959.646623-4-christian.brauner@ubuntu.com
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: James Morris <jamorris@linux.microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/memcontrol.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/memcontrol.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index 605f671203ef..cf9076f58582 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -4899,7 +4899,7 @@ static ssize_t memcg_write_event_control(struct kernfs_open_file *of,
 
 	/* the process need read permission on control file */
 	/* AV: shouldn't we check that it's been opened for read instead? */
-	ret = inode_permission(file_inode(cfile.file), MAY_READ);
+	ret = file_permission(cfile.file, MAY_READ);
 	if (ret < 0)
 		goto out_put_cfile;