[PATCH] take noexec checks to very few callers that care

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index 6d75430358ac..396cb3e5c364 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -252,15 +252,6 @@ int permission(struct inode *inode, int mask, struct nameidata *nd)
                         return -EACCES;
         }
 
-        if ((mask & MAY_EXEC) && S_ISREG(inode->i_mode)) {
-                /*
-                 * MAY_EXEC on regular files is denied if the fs is mounted
-                 * with the "noexec" flag.
-                 */
-                if (mnt && (mnt->mnt_flags & MNT_NOEXEC))
-                        return -EACCES;
-        }
-
         /* Ordinary permission routines do not understand MAY_APPEND. */
         if (inode->i_op && inode->i_op->permission) {
                 retval = inode->i_op->permission(inode, mask);