From 02f92b3868a1b34ab98464e76b0e4e060474ba10 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christian Brauner Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2021 14:19:22 +0100 Subject: 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 Cc: Al Viro Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Reviewed-by: James Morris Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner --- fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'fs/notify/fanotify') diff --git a/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c b/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c index dcab112e1f00..64cfc1a3015d 100644 --- a/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c +++ b/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c @@ -702,7 +702,7 @@ static int fanotify_find_path(int dfd, const char __user *filename, } /* you can only watch an inode if you have read permissions on it */ - ret = inode_permission(path->dentry->d_inode, MAY_READ); + ret = path_permission(path, MAY_READ); if (ret) { path_put(path); goto out; -- cgit v1.2.3