The routine is called for all directories on file creation and weirdly postpones the check if the dir is sticky to begin with. Instead it first checks fifos and regular files (in that order), while avoidably pulling globals. No functional changes. Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@xxxxxxxxx> --- fs/namei.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c index 63d1fb06da6b..b1600060ecfb 100644 --- a/fs/namei.c +++ b/fs/namei.c @@ -1246,9 +1246,9 @@ static int may_create_in_sticky(struct mnt_idmap *idmap, umode_t dir_mode = nd->dir_mode; vfsuid_t dir_vfsuid = nd->dir_vfsuid; - if ((!sysctl_protected_fifos && S_ISFIFO(inode->i_mode)) || - (!sysctl_protected_regular && S_ISREG(inode->i_mode)) || - likely(!(dir_mode & S_ISVTX)) || + if (likely(!(dir_mode & S_ISVTX)) || + (S_ISREG(inode->i_mode) && !sysctl_protected_regular) || + (S_ISFIFO(inode->i_mode) && !sysctl_protected_fifos) || vfsuid_eq(i_uid_into_vfsuid(idmap, inode), dir_vfsuid) || vfsuid_eq_kuid(i_uid_into_vfsuid(idmap, inode), current_fsuid())) return 0; -- 2.43.0
