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From:   James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 03/40] fs: add file and path permissions helpers
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On Thu, 21 Jan 2021, Christian Brauner wrote:

> 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/20210112220124.837960-16-christian.brauner@ubuntu.com
> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
> Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
> Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>


Reviewed-by: James Morris <jamorris@linux.microsoft.com>


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