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/inotify/inotify_user.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'fs/notify/inotify') diff --git a/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c b/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c index 59c177011a0f..e1155d32ef6f 100644 --- a/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c +++ b/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c @@ -352,7 +352,7 @@ static int inotify_find_inode(const char __user *dirname, struct path *path, if (error) return error; /* you can only watch an inode if you have read permissions on it */ - error = inode_permission(path->dentry->d_inode, MAY_READ); + error = path_permission(path, MAY_READ); if (error) { path_put(path); return error; -- cgit v1.2.3