[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>

3 files changed, 0 insertions, 23 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)
diff --git a/fs/ext3/xattr_trusted.c b/fs/ext3/xattr_trusted.c
index f68bfd1cf519..7c693c94f14d 100644
--- a/fs/ext3/xattr_trusted.c
+++ b/fs/ext3/xattr_trusted.c
@@ -39,8 +39,6 @@ ext3_xattr_trusted_get(struct inode *inode, const char *name,
 {
         if (strcmp(name, "") == 0)
                 return -EINVAL;
-        if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
-                return -EPERM;
         return ext3_xattr_get(inode, EXT3_XATTR_INDEX_TRUSTED, name,
                               buffer, size);
 }
@@ -51,8 +49,6 @@ ext3_xattr_trusted_set(struct inode *inode, const char *name,
 {
         if (strcmp(name, "") == 0)
                 return -EINVAL;
-        if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
-                return -EPERM;
         return ext3_xattr_set(inode, EXT3_XATTR_INDEX_TRUSTED, name,
                               value, size, flags);
 }
diff --git a/fs/ext3/xattr_user.c b/fs/ext3/xattr_user.c
index e907cae7a07c..a85a0a17c4fd 100644
--- a/fs/ext3/xattr_user.c
+++ b/fs/ext3/xattr_user.c
@@ -37,16 +37,10 @@ static int
 ext3_xattr_user_get(struct inode *inode, const char *name,
                     void *buffer, size_t size)
 {
-        int error;
-
         if (strcmp(name, "") == 0)
                 return -EINVAL;
         if (!test_opt(inode->i_sb, XATTR_USER))
                 return -EOPNOTSUPP;
-        error = permission(inode, MAY_READ, NULL);
-        if (error)
-                return error;
-
         return ext3_xattr_get(inode, EXT3_XATTR_INDEX_USER, name, buffer, size);
 }
 
@@ -54,19 +48,10 @@ static int
 ext3_xattr_user_set(struct inode *inode, const char *name,
                     const void *value, size_t size, int flags)
 {
-        int error;
-
         if (strcmp(name, "") == 0)
                 return -EINVAL;
         if (!test_opt(inode->i_sb, XATTR_USER))
                 return -EOPNOTSUPP;
-        if ( !S_ISREG(inode->i_mode) &&
-            (!S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode) || inode->i_mode & S_ISVTX))
-                return -EPERM;
-        error = permission(inode, MAY_WRITE, NULL);
-        if (error)
-                return error;
-
         return ext3_xattr_set(inode, EXT3_XATTR_INDEX_USER, name,
                               value, size, flags);
 }