[PATCH] remove ext3 xattr permission checks

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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

remove checks now in the VFS

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 15 deletions

diff --git a/fs/ext3/xattr_user.c b/fs/ext3/xattr_user.c
index e907cae..a85a0a1 100644
--- a/fs/ext3/xattr_user.c
+++ b/fs/ext3/xattr_user.c
@@ -37,16 +37,10 @@ static int
 ext3_xattr_user_get(struct inode *inode, const char *name,
 		    void *buffer, size_t size)
 {
-	int error;
-
 	if (strcmp(name, "") == 0)
 		return -EINVAL;
 	if (!test_opt(inode->i_sb, XATTR_USER))
 		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
-	error = permission(inode, MAY_READ, NULL);
-	if (error)
-		return error;
-
 	return ext3_xattr_get(inode, EXT3_XATTR_INDEX_USER, name, buffer, size);
 }
 
@@ -54,19 +48,10 @@ static int
 ext3_xattr_user_set(struct inode *inode, const char *name,
 		    const void *value, size_t size, int flags)
 {
-	int error;
-
 	if (strcmp(name, "") == 0)
 		return -EINVAL;
 	if (!test_opt(inode->i_sb, XATTR_USER))
 		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
-	if ( !S_ISREG(inode->i_mode) &&
-	    (!S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode) || inode->i_mode & S_ISVTX))
-		return -EPERM;
-	error = permission(inode, MAY_WRITE, NULL);
-	if (error)
-		return error;
-
 	return ext3_xattr_set(inode, EXT3_XATTR_INDEX_USER, name,
 			      value, size, flags);
 }