vfs: move ACL cache lookup into generic code
This moves logic for checking the cached ACL values from low-level
filesystems into generic code. The end result is a streamlined ACL
check that doesn't need to load the inode->i_op->check_acl pointer at
all for the common cached case.
The filesystems also don't need to check for a non-blocking RCU walk
case in their acl_check() functions, because that is all handled at a
VFS layer.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
diff --git a/fs/generic_acl.c b/fs/generic_acl.c
index 70e90b4..4949473 100644
--- a/fs/generic_acl.c
+++ b/fs/generic_acl.c
@@ -192,18 +192,13 @@
int
generic_check_acl(struct inode *inode, int mask)
{
- if (mask & MAY_NOT_BLOCK) {
- if (!negative_cached_acl(inode, ACL_TYPE_ACCESS))
- return -ECHILD;
- } else {
- struct posix_acl *acl;
+ struct posix_acl *acl;
- acl = get_cached_acl(inode, ACL_TYPE_ACCESS);
- if (acl) {
- int error = posix_acl_permission(inode, acl, mask);
- posix_acl_release(acl);
- return error;
- }
+ acl = get_cached_acl(inode, ACL_TYPE_ACCESS);
+ if (acl) {
+ int error = posix_acl_permission(inode, acl, mask);
+ posix_acl_release(acl);
+ return error;
}
return -EAGAIN;
}