This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
nfsd4: remove obselete comment
to the 5.15-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
nfsd4-remove-obselete-comment.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 08ba09d5a76399d0c5c329230f0ce4d57f9ba12f
Author: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue Oct 26 12:56:55 2021 -0400
nfsd4: remove obselete comment
[ Upstream commit 80479eb862102f9513e93fcf726c78cc0be2e3b2 ]
Mandatory locking has been removed. And the rest of this comment is
redundant with the code.
Reported-by: Jeff layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/fs/nfsd/vfs.c b/fs/nfsd/vfs.c
index 59e30cff920ca..925aa08ca1075 100644
--- a/fs/nfsd/vfs.c
+++ b/fs/nfsd/vfs.c
@@ -744,9 +744,6 @@ __nfsd_open(struct svc_rqst *rqstp, struct svc_fh *fhp, umode_t type,
path.dentry = fhp->fh_dentry;
inode = d_inode(path.dentry);
- /* Disallow write access to files with the append-only bit set
- * or any access when mandatory locking enabled
- */
err = nfserr_perm;
if (IS_APPEND(inode) && (may_flags & NFSD_MAY_WRITE))
goto out;
