Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6:
  devcgroup_inode_permission: take "is it a device node" checks to inlined wrapper
  fix comment in generic_permission()
  kill obsolete comment for follow_down()
  proc_sys_permission() is OK in RCU mode
  reiserfs_permission() doesn't need to bail out in RCU mode
  proc_fd_permission() is doesn't need to bail out in RCU mode
  nilfs2_permission() doesn't need to bail out in RCU mode
  logfs doesn't need ->permission() at all
  coda_ioctl_permission() is safe in RCU mode
  cifs_permission() doesn't need to bail out in RCU mode
  bad_inode_permission() is safe from RCU mode
  ubifs: dereferencing an ERR_PTR in ubifs_mount()

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/security/device_cgroup.c b/security/device_cgroup.c
index cd1f779fa51d..1be68269e1c2 100644
--- a/security/device_cgroup.c
+++ b/security/device_cgroup.c
@@ -474,17 +474,11 @@ struct cgroup_subsys devices_subsys = {
 	.subsys_id = devices_subsys_id,
 };
 
-int devcgroup_inode_permission(struct inode *inode, int mask)
+int __devcgroup_inode_permission(struct inode *inode, int mask)
 {
 	struct dev_cgroup *dev_cgroup;
 	struct dev_whitelist_item *wh;
 
-	dev_t device = inode->i_rdev;
-	if (!device)
-		return 0;
-	if (!S_ISBLK(inode->i_mode) && !S_ISCHR(inode->i_mode))
-		return 0;
-
 	rcu_read_lock();
 
 	dev_cgroup = task_devcgroup(current);