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authorJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>2013-10-02 17:01:18 -0400
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2013-11-09 00:16:31 -0500
commitb7a6ec52dd4eced4a9bcda9ca85b3c8af84d3c90 (patch)
tree65f94ff93032bbf7ada265b89c5554cd94522366 /fs/stat.c
parent5a3cd99285dc793a4022fa75ceeb323eb6d29ac9 (diff)
vfs: split out vfs_getattr_nosec
The filehandle lookup code wants this version of getattr. Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/stat.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/stat.c31
1 files changed, 25 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/fs/stat.c b/fs/stat.c
index d0ea7ef75e26..ae0c3cef9927 100644
--- a/fs/stat.c
+++ b/fs/stat.c
@@ -37,14 +37,21 @@ void generic_fillattr(struct inode *inode, struct kstat *stat)
EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_fillattr);
-int vfs_getattr(struct path *path, struct kstat *stat)
+/**
+ * vfs_getattr_nosec - getattr without security checks
+ * @path: file to get attributes from
+ * @stat: structure to return attributes in
+ *
+ * Get attributes without calling security_inode_getattr.
+ *
+ * Currently the only caller other than vfs_getattr is internal to the
+ * filehandle lookup code, which uses only the inode number and returns
+ * no attributes to any user. Any other code probably wants
+ * vfs_getattr.
+ */
+int vfs_getattr_nosec(struct path *path, struct kstat *stat)
{
struct inode *inode = path->dentry->d_inode;
- int retval;
-
- retval = security_inode_getattr(path->mnt, path->dentry);
- if (retval)
- return retval;
if (inode->i_op->getattr)
return inode->i_op->getattr(path->mnt, path->dentry, stat);
@@ -53,6 +60,18 @@ int vfs_getattr(struct path *path, struct kstat *stat)
return 0;
}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(vfs_getattr_nosec);
+
+int vfs_getattr(struct path *path, struct kstat *stat)
+{
+ int retval;
+
+ retval = security_inode_getattr(path->mnt, path->dentry);
+ if (retval)
+ return retval;
+ return vfs_getattr_nosec(path, stat);
+}
+
EXPORT_SYMBOL(vfs_getattr);
int vfs_fstat(unsigned int fd, struct kstat *stat)