The patch titled exec: remove unnecessary check for MNT_NOEXEC has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is exec-remove-unnecessary-check-for-mnt_noexec.patch *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: exec: remove unnecessary check for MNT_NOEXEC From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxx> vfs_permission(MAY_EXEC) checks if the filesystem is mounted with "noexec", so there's no need to repeat this check in sys_uselib() and open_exec(). Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxx> Cc: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/exec.c | 6 +----- 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-) diff -puN fs/exec.c~exec-remove-unnecessary-check-for-mnt_noexec fs/exec.c --- a/fs/exec.c~exec-remove-unnecessary-check-for-mnt_noexec +++ a/fs/exec.c @@ -113,9 +113,6 @@ asmlinkage long sys_uselib(const char __ if (error) goto out; - error = -EACCES; - if (nd.mnt->mnt_flags & MNT_NOEXEC) - goto exit; error = -EINVAL; if (!S_ISREG(nd.dentry->d_inode->i_mode)) goto exit; @@ -659,8 +656,7 @@ struct file *open_exec(const char *name) if (!err) { struct inode *inode = nd.dentry->d_inode; file = ERR_PTR(-EACCES); - if (!(nd.mnt->mnt_flags & MNT_NOEXEC) && - S_ISREG(inode->i_mode)) { + if (S_ISREG(inode->i_mode)) { int err = vfs_permission(&nd, MAY_EXEC); file = ERR_PTR(err); if (!err) { _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from mszeredi@xxxxxxx are fuse-convert-to-new-aops.patch ext2-show-all-mount-options.patch ext3-show-all-mount-options.patch ext4-show-all-mount-options.patch vfs-check-nanoseconds-in-utimensat.patch fix-execute-checking-in-permission.patch exec-remove-unnecessary-check-for-mnt_noexec.patch unprivileged-mounts-add-user-mounts-to-the-kernel.patch unprivileged-mounts-allow-unprivileged-umount.patch unprivileged-mounts-account-user-mounts.patch unprivileged-mounts-propagate-error-values-from-clone_mnt.patch unprivileged-mounts-allow-unprivileged-bind-mounts.patch unprivileged-mounts-put-declaration-of-put_filesystem-in-fsh.patch unprivileged-mounts-allow-unprivileged-mounts.patch unprivileged-mounts-allow-unprivileged-mounts-fix-subtype-handling.patch unprivileged-mounts-allow-unprivileged-fuse-mounts.patch unprivileged-mounts-propagation-inherit-owner-from-parent.patch unprivileged-mounts-propagation-inherit-owner-from-parent-fix-for-git-audit.patch unprivileged-mounts-add-no-submounts-flag.patch fuse-update-backing_dev_info-congestion-state.patch fuse-fix-reserved-request-wake-up.patch fuse-add-reference-counting-to-fuse_file.patch fuse-truncate-on-spontaneous-size-change.patch fuse-fix-page-invalidation.patch fuse-set-i_nlink-to-sane-value-after-mount.patch fuse-refresh-stale-attributes-in-fuse_permission.patch fuse-fix-permission-checking-on-sticky-directories.patch fuse-fix-permission-checking-on-sticky-directories-fix.patch fuse-cleanup-in-release.patch fuse-no-abort-on-interrupt.patch fuse-no-enoent-from-fuse-device-read.patch fuse-fix-setting-i_mode-bits.patch fuse-clean-up-execute-permission-checking.patch clean-out-unused-code-in-dentry-pruning.patch uml-remove-unnecessary-hostfs_getattr.patch fix-warnings-in-revoked_inodec.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html