From: Dave Kleikamp Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2006 16:50:40 +0000 (-0600) Subject: JFS: Remove redundant xattr permission checking X-Git-Url: https://git.stricted.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d572b87946f8c598b3cad86a7913862dd48daadb;p=GitHub%2FLineageOS%2Fandroid_kernel_motorola_exynos9610.git JFS: Remove redundant xattr permission checking The vfs handles most permissions for setting and retrieving xattrs. This patch removes a redundant and wrong check so that it won't override the correct behavior which is being fixed in the vfs. Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp --- diff --git a/fs/jfs/xattr.c b/fs/jfs/xattr.c index 4c7985ebca92..b753ba216450 100644 --- a/fs/jfs/xattr.c +++ b/fs/jfs/xattr.c @@ -756,6 +756,11 @@ static int can_set_system_xattr(struct inode *inode, const char *name, return -EOPNOTSUPP; } +/* + * Most of the permission checking is done by xattr_permission in the vfs. + * The local file system is responsible for handling the system.* namespace. + * We also need to verify that this is a namespace that we recognize. + */ static int can_set_xattr(struct inode *inode, const char *name, const void *value, size_t value_len) { @@ -771,10 +776,6 @@ static int can_set_xattr(struct inode *inode, const char *name, strncmp(name, XATTR_OS2_PREFIX, XATTR_OS2_PREFIX_LEN)) return -EOPNOTSUPP; - if (!S_ISREG(inode->i_mode) && - (!S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode) || inode->i_mode &S_ISVTX)) - return -EPERM; - return 0; }