Merge commit '9f12600fe425bc28f0ccba034a77783c09c15af4' into for-linus

Backmerge of dcache.c changes from mainline.  It's that, or complete
rebase...

Conflicts:
	fs/splice.c

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/fs/kernfs/file.c b/fs/kernfs/file.c
index e01ea4a..5e9a80c 100644
--- a/fs/kernfs/file.c
+++ b/fs/kernfs/file.c
@@ -610,6 +610,7 @@ static void kernfs_put_open_node(struct kernfs_node *kn,
 static int kernfs_fop_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
 {
 	struct kernfs_node *kn = file->f_path.dentry->d_fsdata;
+	struct kernfs_root *root = kernfs_root(kn);
 	const struct kernfs_ops *ops;
 	struct kernfs_open_file *of;
 	bool has_read, has_write, has_mmap;
@@ -624,14 +625,16 @@ static int kernfs_fop_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
 	has_write = ops->write || ops->mmap;
 	has_mmap = ops->mmap;
 
-	/* check perms and supported operations */
-	if ((file->f_mode & FMODE_WRITE) &&
-	    (!(inode->i_mode & S_IWUGO) || !has_write))
-		goto err_out;
+	/* see the flag definition for details */
+	if (root->flags & KERNFS_ROOT_EXTRA_OPEN_PERM_CHECK) {
+		if ((file->f_mode & FMODE_WRITE) &&
+		    (!(inode->i_mode & S_IWUGO) || !has_write))
+			goto err_out;
 
-	if ((file->f_mode & FMODE_READ) &&
-	    (!(inode->i_mode & S_IRUGO) || !has_read))
-		goto err_out;
+		if ((file->f_mode & FMODE_READ) &&
+		    (!(inode->i_mode & S_IRUGO) || !has_read))
+			goto err_out;
+	}
 
 	/* allocate a kernfs_open_file for the file */
 	error = -ENOMEM;