Codepaths allocating a fd always make sure the bit is set/unset depending on flags, thus clearing on close is redundant. Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik <mguzik@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/file.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/file.c b/fs/file.c index 1fc7fbb..9d047bd 100644 --- a/fs/file.c +++ b/fs/file.c @@ -631,7 +631,6 @@ int __close_fd(struct files_struct *files, unsigned fd) if (!file) goto out_unlock; rcu_assign_pointer(fdt->fd[fd], NULL); - __clear_close_on_exec(fd, fdt); __put_unused_fd(files, fd); spin_unlock(&files->file_lock); return filp_close(file, files); -- 1.8.3.1