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| author | Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com> | 2006-11-02 10:50:40 -0600 |
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| committer | Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com> | 2006-11-02 10:50:40 -0600 |
| commit | d572b87946f8c598b3cad86a7913862dd48daadb (patch) | |
| tree | 45c2fbfc33ee6f04cb78fa9b1f5e0d6d9b8fafc9 /fs/jfs | |
| parent | 89f68225876db7df638de2884b561facb1870239 (diff) | |
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 <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/jfs')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/jfs/xattr.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
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; } |