[PATCH 3/8] Simplify exec_permission_lite() further

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Mon Sep 07 2009 - 17:04:19 EST



From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 10:53:56 -0700

This function is only called for path components that are already known
to be directories (they have a '->lookup' method). So don't bother
doing that whole S_ISDIR() testing, the whole point of the 'lite()'
version is that we know that we are looking at a directory component,
and that we're only checking name lookup permission.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/namei.c | 8 +-------
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index bf8aa95..e39e5cb 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -445,13 +445,7 @@ static int exec_permission_lite(struct inode *inode)
if (mode & MAY_EXEC)
goto ok;

- if ((inode->i_mode & S_IXUGO) && capable(CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE))
- goto ok;
-
- if (S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode) && capable(CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE))
- goto ok;
-
- if (S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode) && capable(CAP_DAC_READ_SEARCH))
+ if (capable(CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE) || capable(CAP_DAC_READ_SEARCH))
goto ok;

return -EACCES;
--
1.6.4.1.209.g74b8

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