[PATCH] remove xfs xattr permission checks

remove checks now in the VFS

XFS has an additional xattr interface through obscure ioctl.  it requires
raised capabilities but we need to add some read-only/immutable checks anyway

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

2 files changed, 8 insertions, 26 deletions

diff --git a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_ioctl.c b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_ioctl.c
index b78b5eb9e96c..f98c5be3dfe7 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_ioctl.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_ioctl.c
@@ -530,6 +530,8 @@ xfs_attrmulti_attr_set(
         char                    *kbuf;
         int                     error = EFAULT;
 
+        if (IS_RDONLY(&vp->v_inode))
+                return -EROFS;
         if (IS_IMMUTABLE(&vp->v_inode) || IS_APPEND(&vp->v_inode))
                 return EPERM;
         if (len > XATTR_SIZE_MAX)
@@ -557,6 +559,9 @@ xfs_attrmulti_attr_remove(
 {
         int                     error;
 
+
+        if (IS_RDONLY(&vp->v_inode))
+                return -EROFS;
         if (IS_IMMUTABLE(&vp->v_inode) || IS_APPEND(&vp->v_inode))
                 return EPERM;
 
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_attr.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_attr.c
index 5484eeb460c8..1a11c2b51701 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_attr.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_attr.c
@@ -117,11 +117,6 @@ xfs_attr_fetch(xfs_inode_t *ip, const char *name, int namelen,
              ip->i_d.di_anextents == 0))
                 return(ENOATTR);
 
-        if (!(flags & (ATTR_KERNACCESS|ATTR_SECURE))) {
-                if ((error = xfs_iaccess(ip, S_IRUSR, cred)))
-                        return(XFS_ERROR(error));
-        }
-
         /*
          * Fill in the arg structure for this request.
          */
@@ -425,7 +420,7 @@ xfs_attr_set(bhv_desc_t *bdp, const char *name, char *value, int valuelen, int f
              struct cred *cred)
 {
         xfs_inode_t     *dp;
-        int             namelen, error;
+        int             namelen;
 
         namelen = strlen(name);
         if (namelen >= MAXNAMELEN)
@@ -437,14 +432,6 @@ xfs_attr_set(bhv_desc_t *bdp, const char *name, char *value, int valuelen, int f
         if (XFS_FORCED_SHUTDOWN(dp->i_mount))
                 return (EIO);
 
-        xfs_ilock(dp, XFS_ILOCK_SHARED);
-        if (!(flags & ATTR_SECURE) &&
-             (error = xfs_iaccess(dp, S_IWUSR, cred))) {
-                xfs_iunlock(dp, XFS_ILOCK_SHARED);
-                return(XFS_ERROR(error));
-        }
-        xfs_iunlock(dp, XFS_ILOCK_SHARED);
-
         return xfs_attr_set_int(dp, name, namelen, value, valuelen, flags);
 }
 
@@ -579,7 +566,7 @@ int
 xfs_attr_remove(bhv_desc_t *bdp, const char *name, int flags, struct cred *cred)
 {
         xfs_inode_t         *dp;
-        int                 namelen, error;
+        int                 namelen;
 
         namelen = strlen(name);
         if (namelen >= MAXNAMELEN)
@@ -592,11 +579,7 @@ xfs_attr_remove(bhv_desc_t *bdp, const char *name, int flags, struct cred *cred)
                 return (EIO);
 
         xfs_ilock(dp, XFS_ILOCK_SHARED);
-        if (!(flags & ATTR_SECURE) &&
-             (error = xfs_iaccess(dp, S_IWUSR, cred))) {
-                xfs_iunlock(dp, XFS_ILOCK_SHARED);
-                return(XFS_ERROR(error));
-        } else if (XFS_IFORK_Q(dp) == 0 ||
+        if (XFS_IFORK_Q(dp) == 0 ||
                    (dp->i_d.di_aformat == XFS_DINODE_FMT_EXTENTS &&
                     dp->i_d.di_anextents == 0)) {
                 xfs_iunlock(dp, XFS_ILOCK_SHARED);
@@ -668,12 +651,6 @@ xfs_attr_list(bhv_desc_t *bdp, char *buffer, int bufsize, int flags,
                 return (EIO);
 
         xfs_ilock(dp, XFS_ILOCK_SHARED);
-        if (!(flags & ATTR_SECURE) &&
-             (error = xfs_iaccess(dp, S_IRUSR, cred))) {
-                xfs_iunlock(dp, XFS_ILOCK_SHARED);
-                return(XFS_ERROR(error));
-        }
-
         /*
          * Decide on what work routines to call based on the inode size.
          */