shmem_file_setup is explicitly intended for a file that can be fully read and written by kernel users without restrictions. Don't poke into internals to change random flags in the file or inode. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/xfs/scrub/xfile.c | 15 --------------- 1 file changed, 15 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/xfs/scrub/xfile.c b/fs/xfs/scrub/xfile.c index 99a2b48f5662e6..95250db81981ab 100644 --- a/fs/xfs/scrub/xfile.c +++ b/fs/xfs/scrub/xfile.c @@ -74,22 +74,7 @@ xfile_create( goto out_xfile; } - /* - * We want a large sparse file that we can pread, pwrite, and seek. - * xfile users are responsible for keeping the xfile hidden away from - * all other callers, so we skip timestamp updates and security checks. - * Make the inode only accessible by root, just in case the xfile ever - * escapes. - */ - xf->file->f_mode |= FMODE_PREAD | FMODE_PWRITE | FMODE_NOCMTIME | - FMODE_LSEEK; - xf->file->f_flags |= O_RDWR | O_LARGEFILE | O_NOATIME; inode = file_inode(xf->file); - inode->i_flags |= S_NOCMTIME | S_NOATIME; - inode->i_mode &= ~0177; - inode->i_uid = GLOBAL_ROOT_UID; - inode->i_gid = GLOBAL_ROOT_GID; - lockdep_set_class(&inode->i_rwsem, &xfile_i_mutex_key); trace_xfile_create(xf); -- 2.39.2
