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JFS: Remove redundant xattr permission checking

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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>
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Dave Kleikamp 2006-11-02 10:50:40 -06:00
parent 89f6822587
commit d572b87946
1 changed files with 5 additions and 4 deletions
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fs/jfs/xattr.c
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@ -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;
}