Security/VFS: re-export security_inode_permission symbol
authorErez Zadok <ezk@cs.sunysb.edu>
Tue, 13 Jan 2009 03:16:46 +0000 (22:16 -0500)
committerErez Zadok <ezk@cs.sunysb.edu>
Sun, 23 Feb 2014 19:06:44 +0000 (14:06 -0500)
Unionfs needs it because it has to do everything in there, but skip the
EROFS test (so copyup can be triggered).  There's no easy way to execute
parts of security_inode_permission() without copying  and duplicating much
of its functionality, so exporting the symbol seems the simplest.

Signed-off-by: Erez Zadok <ezk@cs.sunysb.edu>
security/security.c

index 687c6fd14bb6db68695d6d207edb8ad1db195c00..a29f88d56a021929f5cd4e58f5231a82e0c902c8 100644 (file)
@@ -564,6 +564,7 @@ int security_inode_permission(struct inode *inode, int mask)
                return 0;
        return security_ops->inode_permission(inode, mask);
 }
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(security_inode_permission);
 
 int security_inode_setattr(struct dentry *dentry, struct iattr *attr)
 {