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authorAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2022-01-07 12:24:41 -0500
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2022-05-19 23:26:29 -0400
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get rid of dead code in legitimize_root()
Combination of LOOKUP_IS_SCOPED and NULL nd->root.mnt is impossible after successful path_init(). All places where ->root.mnt might become NULL do that only if LOOKUP_IS_SCOPED is not there and path_init() itself can return success without setting nd->root only if ND_ROOT_PRESET had been set (in which case nd->root had been set by caller and never changed) or if the name had been a relative one *and* none of the bits in LOOKUP_IS_SCOPED had been present. Since all calls of legitimize_root() must be downstream of successful path_init(), the check for !nd->root.mnt && (nd->flags & LOOKUP_IS_SCOPED) is pure paranoia. FWIW, it had been discussed (and agreed upon) with Aleksa back when scoped lookups had been merged; looks like that had fallen through the cracks back then. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
-rw-r--r--fs/namei.c7
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index 9e327d0717d0..69e6ba7c407b 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -729,13 +729,6 @@ static bool legitimize_links(struct nameidata *nd)
static bool legitimize_root(struct nameidata *nd)
{
- /*
- * For scoped-lookups (where nd->root has been zeroed), we need to
- * restart the whole lookup from scratch -- because set_root() is wrong
- * for these lookups (nd->dfd is the root, not the filesystem root).
- */
- if (!nd->root.mnt && (nd->flags & LOOKUP_IS_SCOPED))
- return false;
/* Nothing to do if nd->root is zero or is managed by the VFS user. */
if (!nd->root.mnt || (nd->state & ND_ROOT_PRESET))
return true;