ext4: remove unnecessary check for APPEND and IMMUTABLE

All the checks IS_APPEND and IS_IMMUTABLE for the fallocate operation on
the inode are done in vfs. No need to do this again in ext4. Remove it.

Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>

2 files changed, 1 insertions, 11 deletions

diff --git a/fs/ext4/extents.c b/fs/ext4/extents.c
index be1e56cbbf32..ed4ec48239b6 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/extents.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/extents.c
@@ -5398,12 +5398,6 @@ int ext4_collapse_range(struct inode *inode, loff_t offset, loff_t len)
         /* Take mutex lock */
         mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex);
 
-        /* It's not possible punch hole on append only file */
-        if (IS_APPEND(inode) || IS_IMMUTABLE(inode)) {
-                ret = -EPERM;
-                goto out_mutex;
-        }
-
         if (IS_SWAPFILE(inode)) {
                 ret = -ETXTBSY;
                 goto out_mutex;
diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
index f023f0cb46fc..e2bba76f0d7b 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
@@ -3541,11 +3541,7 @@ int ext4_punch_hole(struct inode *inode, loff_t offset, loff_t length)
         }
 
         mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex);
-        /* It's not possible punch hole on append only file */
-        if (IS_APPEND(inode) || IS_IMMUTABLE(inode)) {
-                ret = -EPERM;
-                goto out_mutex;
-        }
+
         if (IS_SWAPFILE(inode)) {
                 ret = -ETXTBSY;
                 goto out_mutex;