[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_trusted.c b/fs/ext2/xattr_trusted.c
index 52b30ee6a25f..2c072bfea23b 100644
--- a/fs/ext2/xattr_trusted.c
+++ b/fs/ext2/xattr_trusted.c
@@ -38,8 +38,6 @@ ext2_xattr_trusted_get(struct inode *inode, const char *name,
 {
         if (strcmp(name, "") == 0)
                 return -EINVAL;
-        if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
-                return -EPERM;
         return ext2_xattr_get(inode, EXT2_XATTR_INDEX_TRUSTED, name,
                               buffer, size);
 }
@@ -50,8 +48,6 @@ ext2_xattr_trusted_set(struct inode *inode, const char *name,
 {
         if (strcmp(name, "") == 0)
                 return -EINVAL;
-        if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
-                return -EPERM;
         return ext2_xattr_set(inode, EXT2_XATTR_INDEX_TRUSTED, name,
                               value, size, flags);
 }