On 06/02/16 13:22, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > The problem with lookup_one_len_unlocked is that it still calls > inode_permission. > > As per previous discussions we don't want the path based permission > checks involved in that lookup. >
Is it that we don't *want* it, or that we don't *need* it? In the latter case, we could just do whatever makes the code simpler, no? -hpa