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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.01.0909071402220.3419@localhost.localdomain>
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2009 14:02:47 -0700 (PDT)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
Linux Filesystem Mailing List <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>
cc: Eric Paris <eparis@...hat.com>, Mimi Zohar <zohar@...ibm.com>,
James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>
Subject: [PATCH 2/8] Simplify exec_permission_lite() logic
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 10:50:37 -0700
Instead of returning EAGAIN and having the caller do something
special for that case, just do the special case directly.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
---
fs/namei.c | 5 +----
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index 164aa15..bf8aa95 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -435,7 +435,7 @@ static int exec_permission_lite(struct inode *inode)
umode_t mode = inode->i_mode;
if (inode->i_op->permission)
- return -EAGAIN;
+ return inode_permission(inode, MAY_EXEC);
if (current_fsuid() == inode->i_uid)
mode >>= 6;
@@ -853,9 +853,6 @@ static int __link_path_walk(const char *name, struct nameidata *nd)
nd->flags |= LOOKUP_CONTINUE;
err = exec_permission_lite(inode);
- if (err == -EAGAIN)
- err = inode_permission(nd->path.dentry->d_inode,
- MAY_EXEC);
if (err)
break;
--
1.6.4.1.209.g74b8
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