cleanup may_open

Add a switch for the various i_mode fmt cases, and remove the comment
about writeability of devices nodes - that part is handled in
inode_permission and comment on (briefly) there.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index bbc15c2..2a40409 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -1486,24 +1486,22 @@ int may_open(struct path *path, int acc_mode, int flag)
        if (!inode)
                return -ENOENT;
 
-       if (S_ISLNK(inode->i_mode))
+       switch (inode->i_mode & S_IFMT) {
+       case S_IFLNK:
                return -ELOOP;
-       
-       if (S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode) && (acc_mode & MAY_WRITE))
-               return -EISDIR;
-
-       /*
-        * FIFO's, sockets and device files are special: they don't
-        * actually live on the filesystem itself, and as such you
-        * can write to them even if the filesystem is read-only.
-        */
-       if (S_ISFIFO(inode->i_mode) || S_ISSOCK(inode->i_mode)) {
-               flag &= ~O_TRUNC;
-       } else if (S_ISBLK(inode->i_mode) || S_ISCHR(inode->i_mode)) {
+       case S_IFDIR:
+               if (acc_mode & MAY_WRITE)
+                       return -EISDIR;
+               break;
+       case S_IFBLK:
+       case S_IFCHR:
                if (path->mnt->mnt_flags & MNT_NODEV)
                        return -EACCES;
-
+               /*FALLTHRU*/
+       case S_IFIFO:
+       case S_IFSOCK:
                flag &= ~O_TRUNC;
+               break;
        }
 
        error = inode_permission(inode, acc_mode);