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authorDenis Efremov <efremov@ispras.ru>2019-02-26 23:49:07 +0300
committerJames Morris <james.morris@microsoft.com>2019-03-26 16:43:23 -0700
commit6b6b6476a32f763843c9a3c91dff4d91faa1267e (patch)
tree2c8e655be4a214560dfdb79d0b1d6a05fdcea422 /include
parent2f991d7ae86a81eba7e564a0f054d9e5dbfbfe34 (diff)
LSM: fix documentation for the path_chmod hook
The path_chmod hook was changed in the commit "switch security_path_chmod() to struct path *" (cdcf116d44e7). The argument @mnt was removed from the hook, @dentry was changed to @path. This patch updates the documentation accordingly. Signed-off-by: Denis Efremov <efremov@ispras.ru> Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Acked-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <james.morris@microsoft.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/lsm_hooks.h9
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/lsm_hooks.h b/include/linux/lsm_hooks.h
index 69b1209038ec..1a4e4dda5235 100644
--- a/include/linux/lsm_hooks.h
+++ b/include/linux/lsm_hooks.h
@@ -319,10 +319,11 @@
* @new_dentry contains the dentry structure of the new link.
* Return 0 if permission is granted.
* @path_chmod:
- * Check for permission to change DAC's permission of a file or directory.
- * @dentry contains the dentry structure.
- * @mnt contains the vfsmnt structure.
- * @mode contains DAC's mode.
+ * Check for permission to change a mode of the file @path. The new
+ * mode is specified in @mode.
+ * @path contains the path structure of the file to change the mode.
+ * @mode contains the new DAC's permission, which is a bitmask of
+ * constants from <include/uapi/linux/stat.h>
* Return 0 if permission is granted.
* @path_chown:
* Check for permission to change owner/group of a file or directory.