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authorLinus Torvalds2020-06-07 12:19:06 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds2020-06-08 11:04:19 -0700
commit63d72b93f2262900c8de74ad0f5a58e0d452c9d3 (patch)
tree6e609594f18a8b9962e1833d2be684445521aba1 /Documentation
parent5fc475b749c72e0b3f3991b33a90d302f52ae746 (diff)
vfs: clean up posix_acl_permission() logic aroudn MAY_NOT_BLOCK
posix_acl_permission() does not care about MAY_NOT_BLOCK, and in fact the permission logic internally must not check that bit (it's only for upper layers to decide whether they can block to do IO to look up the acl information or not). But the way the code was written, it _looked_ like it cared, since the function explicitly did not mask that bit off. But it has exactly two callers: one for when that bit is set, which first clears the bit before calling posix_acl_permission(), and the other call site when that bit was clear. So stop the silly games "saving" the MAY_NOT_BLOCK bit that must not be used for the actual permission test, and that currently is pointlessly cleared by the callers when the function itself should just not care. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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