+ return -EACCES;
+}
+
+/**
+ * generic_permission - check for access rights on a Posix-like filesystem
+ * @inode: inode to check access rights for
+ * @mask: right to check for (%MAY_READ, %MAY_WRITE, %MAY_EXEC)
+ * @check_acl: optional callback to check for Posix ACLs
+ *
+ * Used to check for read/write/execute permissions on a file.
+ * We use "fsuid" for this, letting us set arbitrary permissions
+ * for filesystem access without changing the "normal" uids which
+ * are used for other things..
+ */
+int generic_permission(struct inode *inode, int mask,
+ int (*check_acl)(struct inode *inode, int mask))
+{
+ int ret;
+
+ /*
+ * Do the basic POSIX ACL permission checks.
+ */
+ ret = acl_permission_check(inode, mask, check_acl);
+ if (ret != -EACCES)
+ return ret;