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>
Fri, 24 Jun 2011 18:08:05 +0000 (14:08 -0400)
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 4ba6d4cc061f294142b126b962a99986a1285a6c..093d8b44f63f83af883c310972f03f3e958fa4ae 100644 (file)
@@ -520,6 +520,7 @@ int security_inode_permission(struct inode *inode, int mask)
                return 0;
        return security_ops->inode_permission(inode, mask, 0);
 }
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(security_inode_permission);
 
 int security_inode_exec_permission(struct inode *inode, unsigned int flags)
 {