This removes two redundant capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN) checks from fanotify_init(). fanotify_init() guards the whole syscall with capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN) at the beginning. So the other two capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN) checks are not needed. Fixes: 5dd03f55fd2 ("fanotify: allow userspace to override max queue depth") Fixes: ac7e22dcfaf ("fanotify: allow userspace to override max marks") Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c | 4 ---- 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c b/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c index a90bb19dcfa2..ec2739a66103 100644 --- a/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c +++ b/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c @@ -845,8 +845,6 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(fanotify_init, unsigned int, flags, unsigned int, event_f_flags) if (flags & FAN_UNLIMITED_QUEUE) { fd = -EPERM; - if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) - goto out_destroy_group; group->max_events = UINT_MAX; } else { group->max_events = FANOTIFY_DEFAULT_MAX_EVENTS; @@ -854,8 +852,6 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(fanotify_init, unsigned int, flags, unsigned int, event_f_flags) if (flags & FAN_UNLIMITED_MARKS) { fd = -EPERM; - if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) - goto out_destroy_group; group->fanotify_data.max_marks = UINT_MAX; } else { group->fanotify_data.max_marks = FANOTIFY_DEFAULT_MAX_MARKS; -- 2.21.0