On Aug 23, 2004  20:03 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 02:16:17PM -0400, James Morris wrote:
> > This patch replaces the dentry parameter with an inode in the LSM
> > inode_{set|get|list}security hooks, in keeping with the ext2/ext3 code.
> > dentries are not needed here.
> 
> Given that the actual methods take a dentry this sounds like a bad design.
> Can;t you just pass down the dentry through all of the ext2 interfaces?
> 
> (And again, mid-term these checks should move to the VFS)

Actually, I recall something about it being desirable to pass the dentry
down instead of just the inode, maybe Andreas G. recalls?

Cheers, Andreas
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