VFS: Remove redundant open-coded mode bit check in prepare_binfmt().
The check in prepare_binfmt() for inode->i_mode & 0111 is redundant,
since open_exec() will already have done that.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
(cherry picked from 822dec482ced07af32c378cd936d77345786572b commit)
diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c
index 8344ba7..a6f64a9 100644
--- a/fs/exec.c
+++ b/fs/exec.c
@@ -922,12 +922,6 @@
int retval;
mode = inode->i_mode;
- /*
- * Check execute perms again - if the caller has CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE,
- * generic_permission lets a non-executable through
- */
- if (!(mode & 0111)) /* with at least _one_ execute bit set */
- return -EACCES;
if (bprm->file->f_op == NULL)
return -EACCES;