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Subject[PATCH 02/13] Don't touch fs_struct in usermodehelper
From: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>

This test seems to be unnecessary since we always have rootfs mounted before
calling a usermodehelper.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
---
kernel/kmod.c | 5 +----
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/kernel/kmod.c
+++ b/kernel/kmod.c
@@ -173,10 +173,7 @@ static int ____call_usermodehelper(void
*/
set_user_nice(current, 0);

- retval = -EPERM;
- if (current->fs->root)
- retval = kernel_execve(sub_info->path,
- sub_info->argv, sub_info->envp);
+ retval = kernel_execve(sub_info->path, sub_info->argv, sub_info->envp);

/* Exec failed? */
sub_info->retval = retval;
-
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