vfs: export check_sticky()

It's already duplicated in btrfs and about to be used in overlayfs too.

Move the sticky bit check to an inline helper and call the out-of-line
helper only in the unlikly case of the sticky bit being set.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index d944f6db9b07..77fd536106cb 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -2384,22 +2384,17 @@ kern_path_mountpoint(int dfd, const char *name, struct path *path,
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(kern_path_mountpoint);
 
-/*
- * It's inline, so penalty for filesystems that don't use sticky bit is
- * minimal.
- */
-static inline int check_sticky(struct inode *dir, struct inode *inode)
+int __check_sticky(struct inode *dir, struct inode *inode)
 {
         kuid_t fsuid = current_fsuid();
 
-        if (!(dir->i_mode & S_ISVTX))
-                return 0;
         if (uid_eq(inode->i_uid, fsuid))
                 return 0;
         if (uid_eq(dir->i_uid, fsuid))
                 return 0;
         return !capable_wrt_inode_uidgid(inode, CAP_FOWNER);
 }
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(__check_sticky);
 
 /*
  *      Check whether we can remove a link victim from directory dir, check