vfs: remove unneeded permission check from path_init
When path_init is called with a valid dfd, that code checks permissions
on the open directory fd and returns an error if the check fails. This
permission check is redundant, however.
Both callers of path_init immediately call link_path_walk afterward. The
first thing that link_path_walk does for pathnames that do not consist
only of slashes is to check for exec permissions at the starting point of
the path walk. And this check in path_init() is on the path taken only
when *name != '/' && *name != '\0'.
In most cases, these checks are very quick, but when the dfd is for a
file on a NFS mount with the actimeo=0, each permission check goes
out onto the wire. The result is 2 identical ACCESS calls.
Given that these codepaths are fairly "hot", I think it makes sense to
eliminate the permission check in path_init and simply assume that the
caller will eventually check the permissions before proceeding.
Reported-by: Dave Wysochanski <dwysocha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index 5f4cdf3..e245d88 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -1903,6 +1903,7 @@
get_fs_pwd(current->fs, &nd->path);
}
} else {
+ /* Caller must check execute permissions on the starting path component */
struct fd f = fdget_raw(dfd);
struct dentry *dentry;
@@ -1916,12 +1917,6 @@
fdput(f);
return -ENOTDIR;
}
-
- retval = inode_permission(dentry->d_inode, MAY_EXEC);
- if (retval) {
- fdput(f);
- return retval;
- }
}
nd->path = f.file->f_path;
