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authorAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2016-04-11 00:48:00 -0400
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2016-04-11 00:48:00 -0400
commitce23e640133484eebc20ca7b7668388213e11327 (patch)
tree0b37de221fe6790396c3ae636bc56e5aacbcaf46 /Documentation/filesystems
parentb296821a7c42fa58baa17513b2b7b30ae66f3336 (diff)
downloadlinux-ce23e640133484eebc20ca7b7668388213e11327.tar.bz2
->getxattr(): pass dentry and inode as separate arguments
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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@@ -525,3 +525,9 @@ in your dentry operations instead.
set_delayed_call() where it used to set *cookie.
->put_link() is gone - just give the destructor to set_delayed_call()
in ->get_link().
+--
+[mandatory]
+ ->getxattr() and xattr_handler.get() get dentry and inode passed separately.
+ dentry might be yet to be attached to inode, so do _not_ use its ->d_inode
+ in the instances. Rationale: !@#!@# security_d_instantiate() needs to be
+ called before we attach dentry to inode.