5.15-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxx> [ 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> --- fs/nfsd/vfs.c | 3 --- 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-) 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; -- 2.43.0