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| author | Fox Chen <foxhlchen@gmail.com> | 2021-05-27 17:16:15 +0800 |
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| committer | Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> | 2021-06-18 11:36:08 -0600 |
| commit | de9414adafe4da174212909e054222948aa620fc (patch) | |
| tree | 2837df343c055def856a7f37e780130479e629e1 /Documentation/filesystems | |
| parent | 18edb95a88a947b10536be4dc86b4a190715f816 (diff) | |
docs: path-lookup: update WALK_GET, WALK_PUT desc
WALK_GET is changed to WALK_TRAILING with a different meaning.
Here it should be WALK_NOFOLLOW. WALK_PUT dosn't exist, we have
WALK_MORE.
WALK_PUT == !WALK_MORE
And there is not should_follow_link().
Related commits:
commit 8c4efe22e7c4 ("namei: invert the meaning of WALK_FOLLOW")
commit 1c4ff1a87e46 ("namei: invert WALK_PUT logics")
Signed-off-by: Fox Chen <foxhlchen@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
[jc: applied language tweaks suggested by Neil]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210527091618.287093-11-foxhlchen@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.rst | 14 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.rst index 0a125673a8fe..1102252cbc7a 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.rst @@ -1123,13 +1123,13 @@ stack in ``walk_component()`` immediately when the symlink is found; old symlink as it walks that last component. So it is quite convenient for ``walk_component()`` to release the old symlink and pop the references just before pushing the reference information for the -new symlink. It is guided in this by two flags; ``WALK_GET``, which -gives it permission to follow a symlink if it finds one, and -``WALK_PUT``, which tells it to release the current symlink after it has been -followed. ``WALK_PUT`` is tested first, leading to a call to -``put_link()``. ``WALK_GET`` is tested subsequently (by -``should_follow_link()``) leading to a call to ``pick_link()`` which sets -up the stack frame. +new symlink. It is guided in this by three flags: ``WALK_NOFOLLOW`` which +forbids it from following a symlink if it finds one, ``WALK_MORE`` +which indicates that it is yet too early to release the +current symlink, and ``WALK_TRAILING`` which indicates that it is on the final +component of the lookup, so we will check userspace flag ``LOOKUP_FOLLOW`` to +decide whether follow it when it is a symlink and call ``may_follow_link()`` to +check if we have privilege to follow it. Symlinks with no final component ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |