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 ...@@ -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 returned if the filesystem cannot handle rcu-walk. See
Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt for more details. Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt for more details.
permission and check_acl are inode permission checks that are called permission is an inode permission check that is called on many or all
on many or all directory inodes on the way down a path walk (to check for directory inodes on the way down a path walk (to check for exec permission). It
exec permission). These must now be rcu-walk aware (flags & IPERM_FLAG_RCU). must now be rcu-walk aware (mask & MAY_NOT_BLOCK). See
See Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt for more details. Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt for more details.
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