kill vfs_permission

With all the nameidata removal there's no point anymore for this helper.
Of the three callers left two will go away with the next lookup series
anyway.

Also add proper kerneldoc to inode_permission as this is the main
permission check routine now.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
This commit is contained in:
Christoph Hellwig 2008-10-24 09:59:29 +02:00 committed by Al Viro
parent 3fb64190aa
commit cb23beb551
3 changed files with 16 additions and 21 deletions

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@ -127,7 +127,8 @@ asmlinkage long sys_uselib(const char __user * library)
if (nd.path.mnt->mnt_flags & MNT_NOEXEC)
goto exit;
error = vfs_permission(&nd, MAY_READ | MAY_EXEC | MAY_OPEN);
error = inode_permission(nd.path.dentry->d_inode,
MAY_READ | MAY_EXEC | MAY_OPEN);
if (error)
goto exit;
@ -680,7 +681,7 @@ struct file *open_exec(const char *name)
if (nd.path.mnt->mnt_flags & MNT_NOEXEC)
goto out_path_put;
err = vfs_permission(&nd, MAY_EXEC | MAY_OPEN);
err = inode_permission(nd.path.dentry->d_inode, MAY_EXEC | MAY_OPEN);
if (err)
goto out_path_put;