Re: [PATCH] utimensat() non-conformances and fixes [v3]

[Miklos Szeredi]

> > I'm not sure of the correct way to get the required nameidata (to do a
> > vfs_permission() call) from the file descriptor.  Can you give me a
> > tip there?
> 
> Could you point me at the right way of doing this?

You don't need nameidata for this at all.  Just call permission() with
a NULL nameidata.

Ugly API?  Yes, will be cleaned up if we manage to find some common
ground with the VFS maintainers.

Miklos
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