cleanup may_open
Add a switch for the various i_mode fmt cases, and remove the comment
about writeability of devices nodes - that part is handled in
inode_permission and comment on (briefly) there.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index bbc15c2..2a40409 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -1486,24 +1486,22 @@
if (!inode)
return -ENOENT;
- if (S_ISLNK(inode->i_mode))
+ switch (inode->i_mode & S_IFMT) {
+ case S_IFLNK:
return -ELOOP;
-
- if (S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode) && (acc_mode & MAY_WRITE))
- return -EISDIR;
-
- /*
- * FIFO's, sockets and device files are special: they don't
- * actually live on the filesystem itself, and as such you
- * can write to them even if the filesystem is read-only.
- */
- if (S_ISFIFO(inode->i_mode) || S_ISSOCK(inode->i_mode)) {
- flag &= ~O_TRUNC;
- } else if (S_ISBLK(inode->i_mode) || S_ISCHR(inode->i_mode)) {
+ case S_IFDIR:
+ if (acc_mode & MAY_WRITE)
+ return -EISDIR;
+ break;
+ case S_IFBLK:
+ case S_IFCHR:
if (path->mnt->mnt_flags & MNT_NODEV)
return -EACCES;
-
+ /*FALLTHRU*/
+ case S_IFIFO:
+ case S_IFSOCK:
flag &= ~O_TRUNC;
+ break;
}
error = inode_permission(inode, acc_mode);