revert "eCryptfs: fix lookup error for special files"

This patch got appied twice.

Cc: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/fs/ecryptfs/inode.c b/fs/ecryptfs/inode.c
index 5d40ad13ab5c..131954b3fb98 100644
--- a/fs/ecryptfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ecryptfs/inode.c
@@ -357,10 +357,6 @@ static struct dentry *ecryptfs_lookup(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry,
                 ecryptfs_printk(KERN_DEBUG, "Is a special file; returning\n");
                 goto out;
         }
-        if (special_file(lower_inode->i_mode)) {
-                ecryptfs_printk(KERN_DEBUG, "Is a special file; returning\n");
-                goto out;
-        }
         if (!nd) {
                 ecryptfs_printk(KERN_DEBUG, "We have a NULL nd, just leave"
                                 "as we *think* we are about to unlink\n");