Re: [RFC] Changes to the LSM file-related hooks for 2.5.58

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 10:44:52AM -0500, Stephen D. Smalley wrote:
> 
> "Andi Kleen" <[e-mail]> writes:
> > Adding release_private_file requires fixing all code that uses 
> > init_private_file (including possible third party code). Otherwise
> > you have some subtle leak. It would better to rename init_private_file to
> > some other name and add appropiate comments so that this can be catched 
> > easily at compile time.
> 
> Thanks for the suggestion.  I've split out this logical change into a
> separate patch and reworked it in accordance with your suggestion.  See
> below.  Let me know if this does not address your concern.

Once you're at it please aqdd an argument to set file.f_flags so the
caller can set O_LARGEFILE properly.  The (unmerged) XFS dmapi code wants
that.