Dont touch fs_struct in usermodehelper

This test seems to be unnecessary since we always have rootfs mounted before
calling a usermodehelper.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/kernel/kmod.c b/kernel/kmod.c
index bb7df2a28bd719d07978593cb10f7264b6f43f3b..22be3ff3f363ac71a319deeb2f55fd0ccbe27c26 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/kmod.c
+++ b/kernel/kmod.c
@@ -173,10 +173,7 @@ static int ____call_usermodehelper(void *data)
         */
        set_user_nice(current, 0);
 
-       retval = -EPERM;
-       if (current->fs->root)
-               retval = kernel_execve(sub_info->path,
-                               sub_info->argv, sub_info->envp);
+       retval = kernel_execve(sub_info->path, sub_info->argv, sub_info->envp);
 
        /* Exec failed? */
        sub_info->retval = retval;