From 42e50a5a69f359e64a143eb0e11a57e18f10c262 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 15:02:09 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] [PATCH] open: cleanup in lookup_flags()

lookup_flags() is only called from the non-create case, so it needn't check
for O_CREAT|O_EXCL.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
---
 fs/namei.c | 6 ------
 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index aaaa81036234..c5769c4fcab1 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -1311,9 +1311,6 @@ static inline int may_create(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *child,
 }
 
 /* 
- * Special case: O_CREAT|O_EXCL implies O_NOFOLLOW for security
- * reasons.
- *
  * O_DIRECTORY translates into forcing a directory lookup.
  */
 static inline int lookup_flags(unsigned int f)
@@ -1323,9 +1320,6 @@ static inline int lookup_flags(unsigned int f)
 	if (f & O_NOFOLLOW)
 		retval &= ~LOOKUP_FOLLOW;
 	
-	if ((f & (O_CREAT|O_EXCL)) == (O_CREAT|O_EXCL))
-		retval &= ~LOOKUP_FOLLOW;
-	
 	if (f & O_DIRECTORY)
 		retval |= LOOKUP_DIRECTORY;
 
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