fs: add get_acl helper
Factor out the code to get an ACL either from the inode or disk from
check_acl, so that it can be used elsewhere later on.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index 3531dee..bcb838e 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -235,27 +235,9 @@
return posix_acl_permission(inode, acl, mask & ~MAY_NOT_BLOCK);
}
- acl = get_cached_acl(inode, ACL_TYPE_ACCESS);
-
- /*
- * A filesystem can force a ACL callback by just never filling the
- * ACL cache. But normally you'd fill the cache either at inode
- * instantiation time, or on the first ->get_acl call.
- *
- * If the filesystem doesn't have a get_acl() function at all, we'll
- * just create the negative cache entry.
- */
- if (acl == ACL_NOT_CACHED) {
- if (inode->i_op->get_acl) {
- acl = inode->i_op->get_acl(inode, ACL_TYPE_ACCESS);
- if (IS_ERR(acl))
- return PTR_ERR(acl);
- } else {
- set_cached_acl(inode, ACL_TYPE_ACCESS, NULL);
- return -EAGAIN;
- }
- }
-
+ acl = get_acl(inode, ACL_TYPE_ACCESS);
+ if (IS_ERR(acl))
+ return PTR_ERR(acl);
if (acl) {
int error = posix_acl_permission(inode, acl, mask);
posix_acl_release(acl);