Re: [PATCH -V6 10/26] vfs: Make the inode passed to inode_change_ok non-const

[Aneesh Kumar K.V]

On Wed, 7 Sep 2011 16:43:22 -0400, "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 10:55:32PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> > From: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > We will need to call iop->permission and iop->get_acl from
> > inode_change_ok() for additional permission checks, and both take a
> > non-const inode.
> 
> OK, the essential difference being that richacls have a say in whether
> we can change attributes or not, which posix acls (for example) don't?
> 

yes, next patch explain the details of the check

-aneesh

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