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Move the permission checks in notify_change into a separate function to make them available to filesystems. When notify_change is called, the vfs performs those checks before calling into iop->setattr. However, a filesystem like gfs2 can only lock and revalidate the inode inside ->setattr, and it must then repeat those checks to err on the safe side. It would be nice to get rid of the double checking, but moving the permission check into iop->setattr altogether isn't really an option. Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.