From 42e50a5a69f359e64a143eb0e11a57e18f10c262 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Miklos Szeredi Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 15:02:09 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] [PATCH] open: cleanup in lookup_flags() lookup_flags() is only called from the non-create case, so it needn't check for O_CREAT|O_EXCL. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi Cc: Al Viro Cc: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- fs/namei.c | 6 ------ 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c index aaaa81036234..c5769c4fcab1 100644 --- a/fs/namei.c +++ b/fs/namei.c @@ -1311,9 +1311,6 @@ static inline int may_create(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *child, } /* - * Special case: O_CREAT|O_EXCL implies O_NOFOLLOW for security - * reasons. - * * O_DIRECTORY translates into forcing a directory lookup. */ static inline int lookup_flags(unsigned int f) @@ -1323,9 +1320,6 @@ static inline int lookup_flags(unsigned int f) if (f & O_NOFOLLOW) retval &= ~LOOKUP_FOLLOW; - if ((f & (O_CREAT|O_EXCL)) == (O_CREAT|O_EXCL)) - retval &= ~LOOKUP_FOLLOW; - if (f & O_DIRECTORY) retval |= LOOKUP_DIRECTORY; -- 2.30.2