docs: path-lookup: update WALK_GET, WALK_PUT desc
authorFox Chen <foxhlchen@gmail.com>
Thu, 27 May 2021 09:16:15 +0000 (17:16 +0800)
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Fri, 18 Jun 2021 17:36:08 +0000 (11:36 -0600)
WALK_GET is changed to WALK_TRAILING with a different meaning.
Here it should be WALK_NOFOLLOW. WALK_PUT dosn't exist, we have
WALK_MORE.

WALK_PUT == !WALK_MORE

And there is not should_follow_link().

Related commits:
commit 8c4efe22e7c4 ("namei: invert the meaning of WALK_FOLLOW")
commit 1c4ff1a87e46 ("namei: invert WALK_PUT logics")

Signed-off-by: Fox Chen <foxhlchen@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
[jc: applied language tweaks suggested by Neil]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210527091618.287093-11-foxhlchen@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.rst

index 0a12567..1102252 100644 (file)
@@ -1123,13 +1123,13 @@ stack in ``walk_component()`` immediately when the symlink is found;
 old symlink as it walks that last component.  So it is quite
 convenient for ``walk_component()`` to release the old symlink and pop
 the references just before pushing the reference information for the
-new symlink.  It is guided in this by two flags; ``WALK_GET``, which
-gives it permission to follow a symlink if it finds one, and
-``WALK_PUT``, which tells it to release the current symlink after it has been
-followed.  ``WALK_PUT`` is tested first, leading to a call to
-``put_link()``.  ``WALK_GET`` is tested subsequently (by
-``should_follow_link()``) leading to a call to ``pick_link()`` which sets
-up the stack frame.
+new symlink.  It is guided in this by three flags: ``WALK_NOFOLLOW`` which
+forbids it from following a symlink if it finds one, ``WALK_MORE``
+which indicates that it is yet too early to release the
+current symlink, and ``WALK_TRAILING`` which indicates that it is on the final
+component of the lookup, so we will check userspace flag ``LOOKUP_FOLLOW`` to
+decide whether follow it when it is a symlink and call ``may_follow_link()`` to
+check if we have privilege to follow it.
 
 Symlinks with no final component
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