The check in open_exec() for inode->i_mode & 0111 has been made
redundant by the fix to permission().
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
(cherry picked from
1d3741c5d991686699f100b65b9956f7ee7ae0ae commit)
if (!(nd.mnt->mnt_flags & MNT_NOEXEC) &&
S_ISREG(inode->i_mode)) {
int err = vfs_permission(&nd, MAY_EXEC);
- if (!err && !(inode->i_mode & 0111))
- err = -EACCES;
file = ERR_PTR(err);
if (!err) {
file = nameidata_to_filp(&nd, O_RDONLY);