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more vfs/fs patches

GIT PULL Al Viro 1 participant 1 message Jun 20, 2011 VFS

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Al Viro

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Dan's fix for ubifs breakage + removal of a bunch of really dumb detritus from ->permission() instances + fix for long-standing stupidity in devcgroups_inode_permission() (the thing is a no-op for non-devices and that check definitely ought to be taken to inline wrapper). Please, pull from the usual place
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6.git/ #for-linus

Shortlog:

Al Viro (11):
bad_inode_permission() is safe from RCU mode
cifs_permission() doesn't need to bail out in RCU mode coda_ioctl_permission() is safe in RCU mode
logfs doesn't need ->permission() at all
nilfs2_permission() doesn't need to bail out in RCU mode proc_fd_permission() is doesn't need to bail out in RCU mode reiserfs_permission() doesn't need to bail out in RCU mode proc_sys_permission() is OK in RCU mode
kill obsolete comment for follow_down()
fix comment in generic_permission()
devcgroup_inode_permission: take "is it a device node" checks to inlined wrapper

Dan Carpenter (1):
ubifs: dereferencing an ERR_PTR in ubifs_mount()

Diffstat:

 fs/bad_inode.c                |    3 ---
 fs/cifs/cifsfs.c              |    3 ---
 fs/coda/pioctl.c              |    2 --
 fs/logfs/dir.c                |    8 --------
 fs/namei.c                    |    6 ++----
 fs/nilfs2/inode.c             |    7 +------
 fs/proc/base.c                |    6 +-----
 fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c         |    3 ---
 fs/reiserfs/xattr.c           |    2 --
 fs/ubifs/super.c              |    1 +
 include/linux/device_cgroup.h |   10 +++++++++-
 security/device_cgroup.c      |    8 +-------
 12 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 44 deletions(-)