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Re: [PATCH v18 21/22] ext4: Add richacl support

To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v18 21/22] ext4: Add richacl support
From: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2016 14:02:33 +0100
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Linux NFS Mailing List <linux-nfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@xxxxxxx>, linux-cifs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Linux API <linux-api@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, LKML <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, XFS Developers <xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx>, Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@xxxxxxxxx>, linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, linux-ext4 <linux-ext4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Anna Schumaker <anna.schumaker@xxxxxxxxxx>
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On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 3:27 PM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> +static inline int
>> +ext4_acl_chmod(struct inode *inode, umode_t mode)
>> +{
>> +     if (IS_RICHACL(inode))
>> +             return richacl_chmod(inode, inode->i_mode);
>> +     return posix_acl_chmod(inode, inode->i_mode);
>> +}
>
> Thi isn't ext4-specific and potentially duplicated in every caller.
> Please provide this as a common helper.

This can go in neither fs.h nor posix_acl.h nor richacl.h unless we
turn it into a macro, and I don't think we want to add a new header
file for such extreme trivia.

> Also while we're at it, the mode argument is ignore and the function
> always uses inode->i_mode instead.

Right, thanks.

Andreas

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