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authorAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2015-03-08 23:36:51 -0400
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2015-04-11 22:24:32 -0400
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drop bogus check in file_open_root()
For one thing, LOOKUP_DIRECTORY will be dealt with in do_last(). For another, name can be an empty string, but not NULL - no callers pass that and it would oops immediately if they would. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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diff --git a/fs/open.c b/fs/open.c
index 33f9cbf2610b..ebcc7df0c9b6 100644
--- a/fs/open.c
+++ b/fs/open.c
@@ -988,9 +988,6 @@ struct file *file_open_root(struct dentry *dentry, struct vfsmount *mnt,
return ERR_PTR(err);
if (flags & O_CREAT)
return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
- if (!filename && (flags & O_DIRECTORY))
- if (!dentry->d_inode->i_op->lookup)
- return ERR_PTR(-ENOTDIR);
return do_file_open_root(dentry, mnt, filename, &op);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(file_open_root);