Re: [patch 07/22] fat: dont call notify_change

[Brad Boyer <flar@allandria.com>]

On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 08:56:39AM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> > > The FAT_IOCTL_SET_ATTRIBUTES ioctl() calls notify_change() to change
> > > the file mode before changing the inode attributes.  Replace with
> > > explicit calls to security_inode_setattr(), fat_setattr() and
> > > fsnotify_change().
> > >
> > > This is equivalent to the original.  The reason it is needed, is that
> > > later in the series we move the immutable check into notify_change().
> > > That would break the FAT_IOCTL_SET_ATTRIBUTES ioctl, as it needs to
> > > perform the mode change regardless of the immutability of the file.
> > 
> > Don't we need to add EXPORT_SYMBOL(security_inode_setattr)?
> 
> Yes we do, thanks for noticing.  Committed the below patch to the
> vfs-cleanups tree.
> ----
> Index: linux-2.6/security/security.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.orig/security/security.c	2008-05-14 12:49:42.000000000 +0200
> +++ linux-2.6/security/security.c	2008-05-17 08:46:52.000000000 +0200
> @@ -476,6 +476,7 @@ int security_inode_setattr(struct dentry
>  		return 0;
>  	return security_ops->inode_setattr(dentry, attr);
>  }
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(security_inode_setattr);

Is there any particular reason you made it EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL? It seems
like this is replacing functionality that was previously exported
without a GPL tag. I won't argue forcefully for changing it, but I
did want to mention it on the list. I understand people wanting to
make new functionality tagged that way (even though I disagree), but
this doesn't seem to fit either the notion of an internal thing that
shouldn't be touched or new functionality.

	Brad Boyer
	flar@allandria.com