From 30524472c2f728c20d6bf35191042a5d455c0a64 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Al Viro Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:02:33 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] take noexec checks to very few callers that care Signed-off-by: Al Viro --- fs/namei.c | 9 --------- 1 file changed, 9 deletions(-) (limited to 'fs/namei.c') diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c index 6d75430358a..396cb3e5c36 100644 --- a/fs/namei.c +++ b/fs/namei.c @@ -252,15 +252,6 @@ int permission(struct inode *inode, int mask, struct nameidata *nd) return -EACCES; } - if ((mask & MAY_EXEC) && S_ISREG(inode->i_mode)) { - /* - * MAY_EXEC on regular files is denied if the fs is mounted - * with the "noexec" flag. - */ - if (mnt && (mnt->mnt_flags & MNT_NOEXEC)) - return -EACCES; - } - /* Ordinary permission routines do not understand MAY_APPEND. */ if (inode->i_op && inode->i_op->permission) { retval = inode->i_op->permission(inode, mask); -- cgit v1.2.3