• Christoph Hellwig's avatar
    [PATCH] sanitize lookup_hash prototype · 49705b77
    Christoph Hellwig authored
    ->permission and ->lookup have a struct nameidata * argument these days to
    pass down lookup intents.  Unfortunately some callers of lookup_hash don't
    actually pass this one down.  For lookup_one_len() we don't have a struct
    nameidata to pass down, but as this function is a library function only
    used by filesystem code this is an acceptable limitation.  All other
    callers should pass down the nameidata, so this patch changes the
    lookup_hash interface to only take a struct nameidata argument and derives
    the other two arguments to __lookup_hash from it.  All callers already have
    the nameidata argument available so this is not a problem.
    
    At the same time I'd like to deprecate the lookup_hash interface as there
    are better exported interfaces for filesystem usage.  Before it can
    actually be removed I need to fix up rpc_pipefs.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
    Cc: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com>
    Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
    Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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