Commit d572b879 authored by Dave Kleikamp's avatar Dave Kleikamp

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: default avatarDave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
parent 89f68225
......@@ -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;
}
......
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