Re: Problems with some of the current hooks

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On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, Stephen Smalley wrote:

> inode_ops->alloc_security has no way to propagate errors back to the
> caller.  FIX: Move this call from clean_inode to the callers of
> clean_inode, i.e. get_empty_inode and get_new_inode.

Actually, while implementing this fix, I realized that a better
solution is to put the inode_ops->alloc_security and the
inode_ops->free_security hook calls into the alloc_inode and
destroy_inode macros/functions in fs/inode.c.  

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Stephen D. Smalley, NAI Labs
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