Dont touch fs_struct in usermodehelper

This test seems to be unnecessary since we always have rootfs mounted before calling a usermodehelper. Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <[email protected]> Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]> Acked-by: Greg KH <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
iegor · Feb 15, 2008 · db74ece · db74ece
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Showing 1 changed file with 1 addition and 4 deletions.
diff --git a/kernel/kmod.c b/kernel/kmod.c
@@ -173,10 +173,7 @@ static int ____call_usermodehelper(void *data)
 	 */
 	set_user_nice(current, 0);
 
-	retval = -EPERM;
-	if (current->fs->root)
-		retval = kernel_execve(sub_info->path,
-				sub_info->argv, sub_info->envp);
+	retval = kernel_execve(sub_info->path, sub_info->argv, sub_info->envp);
 
 	/* Exec failed? */
 	sub_info->retval = retval;