Simplify exec_permission_lite() logic
Instead of returning EAGAIN and having the caller do something
special for that case, just do the special case directly.
Reviewed-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index a005d8b..8c35806 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -435,7 +435,7 @@
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 @@
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;