From cb9179ead0aa0e3b7b4087cdba59baf16bbeef6d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Linus Torvalds Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 11:08:31 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Simplify exec_permission_lite(), part 3 Don't call down to the generic inode_permission() function just to call the inode-specific permission function - just do it directly. The generic inode_permission() code does things like checking MAY_WRITE and devcgroup_inode_permission(), neither of which are relevant for the light pathname walk permission checks (we always do just MAY_EXEC, and the inode is never a special device). Reviewed-by: James Morris Acked-by: Serge Hallyn Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- fs/namei.c | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c index 929f535fb225..e645e3070360 100644 --- a/fs/namei.c +++ b/fs/namei.c @@ -434,8 +434,12 @@ static int exec_permission_lite(struct inode *inode) { umode_t mode = inode->i_mode; - if (inode->i_op->permission) - return inode_permission(inode, MAY_EXEC); + if (inode->i_op->permission) { + int ret = inode->i_op->permission(inode, MAY_EXEC); + if (!ret) + goto ok; + return ret; + } if (current_fsuid() == inode->i_uid) mode >>= 6; -- 2.39.2