[PATCH] remove ext2 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, 4 deletions

diff --git a/fs/ext2/xattr.c b/fs/ext2/xattr.c
index f7a3b5fee274..a2ca3107d475 100644
--- a/fs/ext2/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/ext2/xattr.c
@@ -389,10 +389,6 @@ ext2_xattr_set(struct inode *inode, int name_index, const char *name,
         ea_idebug(inode, "name=%d.%s, value=%p, value_len=%ld",
                   name_index, name, value, (long)value_len);
 
-        if (IS_RDONLY(inode))
-                return -EROFS;
-        if (IS_IMMUTABLE(inode) || IS_APPEND(inode))
-                return -EPERM;
         if (value == NULL)
                 value_len = 0;
         if (name == NULL)