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| author | Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> | 2014-06-12 00:27:11 -0400 |
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| committer | Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> | 2014-06-12 00:28:09 -0400 |
| commit | 9c1d5284c79fea050f115eadeec1dd1758e5c630 (patch) | |
| tree | 4d16fd5aad7ff4931e985c0128c5747f23561f8a /include/linux/kernfs.h | |
| parent | 5f073850602084fbcbb987948ff3e70ae273f7d2 (diff) | |
| parent | 9f12600fe425bc28f0ccba034a77783c09c15af4 (diff) | |
Merge commit '9f12600fe425bc28f0ccba034a77783c09c15af4' into for-linus
Backmerge of dcache.c changes from mainline. It's that, or complete
rebase...
Conflicts:
fs/splice.c
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/kernfs.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/kernfs.h | 19 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/kernfs.h b/include/linux/kernfs.h index b0122dc6f96..ca1be5c9136 100644 --- a/include/linux/kernfs.h +++ b/include/linux/kernfs.h @@ -50,7 +50,24 @@ enum kernfs_node_flag { /* @flags for kernfs_create_root() */ enum kernfs_root_flag { - KERNFS_ROOT_CREATE_DEACTIVATED = 0x0001, + /* + * kernfs_nodes are created in the deactivated state and invisible. + * They require explicit kernfs_activate() to become visible. This + * can be used to make related nodes become visible atomically + * after all nodes are created successfully. + */ + KERNFS_ROOT_CREATE_DEACTIVATED = 0x0001, + + /* + * For regular flies, if the opener has CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE, open(2) + * succeeds regardless of the RW permissions. sysfs had an extra + * layer of enforcement where open(2) fails with -EACCES regardless + * of CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE if the permission doesn't have the + * respective read or write access at all (none of S_IRUGO or + * S_IWUGO) or the respective operation isn't implemented. The + * following flag enables that behavior. + */ + KERNFS_ROOT_EXTRA_OPEN_PERM_CHECK = 0x0002, }; /* type-specific structures for kernfs_node union members */ |