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 --- mm/madvise.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'mm/madvise.c') diff --git a/mm/madvise.c b/mm/madvise.c index 6a660858784b..175c5582d8a9 100644 --- a/mm/madvise.c +++ b/mm/madvise.c @@ -540,7 +540,7 @@ static inline bool can_do_pageout(struct vm_area_struct *vma) * opens a side channel. */ return inode_owner_or_capable(file_inode(vma->vm_file)) || - inode_permission(file_inode(vma->vm_file), MAY_WRITE) == 0; + file_permission(vma->vm_file, MAY_WRITE) == 0; } static long madvise_pageout(struct vm_area_struct *vma, -- cgit