From: Trond Myklebust VFS: Remove redundant open-coded mode bit checks in open_exec(). The check in open_exec() for inode->i_mode & 0111 has been made redundant by the fix to permission(). Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust --- fs/exec.c | 2 -- 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c index a6f64a9..f7aabfe 100644 --- a/fs/exec.c +++ b/fs/exec.c @@ -486,8 +486,6 @@ struct file *open_exec(const char *name) 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);