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authorChristian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>2021-01-21 14:19:22 +0100
committerChristian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>2021-01-24 14:27:16 +0100
commit02f92b3868a1b34ab98464e76b0e4e060474ba10 (patch)
tree355710b868f8a26f8fd5ba413938f92f8a24b68a /kernel/sys.c
parente6c9a71451560edba343cbcbd500bea0a188f0d1 (diff)
downloadlinux-02f92b3868a1b34ab98464e76b0e4e060474ba10.tar.bz2
fs: add file and path permissions helpers
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/20210121131959.646623-4-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> Reviewed-by: James Morris <jamorris@linux.microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/sys.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/sys.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sys.c b/kernel/sys.c
index 51f00fe20e4d..138fb253b344 100644
--- a/kernel/sys.c
+++ b/kernel/sys.c
@@ -1848,7 +1848,7 @@ static int prctl_set_mm_exe_file(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned int fd)
if (!S_ISREG(inode->i_mode) || path_noexec(&exe.file->f_path))
goto exit;
- err = inode_permission(inode, MAY_EXEC);
+ err = file_permission(exe.file, MAY_EXEC);
if (err)
goto exit;