[PATCH] remove ext3 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/ext3/xattr.c b/fs/ext3/xattr.c
index 238199d82ce5..e8d60bf6b7df 100644
--- a/fs/ext3/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/ext3/xattr.c
@@ -946,10 +946,6 @@ ext3_xattr_set_handle(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode, int name_index,
         };
         int error;
 
-        if (IS_RDONLY(inode))
-                return -EROFS;
-        if (IS_IMMUTABLE(inode) || IS_APPEND(inode))
-                return -EPERM;
         if (!name)
                 return -EINVAL;
         if (strlen(name) > 255)