Commit 47016077 authored by Andreas Gruenbacher's avatar Andreas Gruenbacher Committed by Jonathan Corbet

vfs: Minor documentation fix

The check_acl inode operation and the IPERM_FLAG_RCU flag are long gone; update
the documentation.
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
parent 03e8f01a
......@@ -379,10 +379,10 @@ may now be called in rcu-walk mode (nd->flags & LOOKUP_RCU). -ECHILD should be
returned if the filesystem cannot handle rcu-walk. See
Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt for more details.
permission and check_acl are inode permission checks that are called
on many or all directory inodes on the way down a path walk (to check for
exec permission). These must now be rcu-walk aware (flags & IPERM_FLAG_RCU).
See Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt for more details.
permission is an inode permission check that is called on many or all
directory inodes on the way down a path walk (to check for exec permission). It
must now be rcu-walk aware (mask & MAY_NOT_BLOCK). See
Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt for more details.
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