From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 06:56:16 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: revert "eCryptfs: fix lookup error for special files"
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.23-rc5~34
X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=060d11b0b35d13eb2251fd08403d900b71df5791;p=linux-2.6

revert "eCryptfs: fix lookup error for special files"

This patch got appied twice.

Cc: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---

diff --git a/fs/ecryptfs/inode.c b/fs/ecryptfs/inode.c
index 5d40ad13ab..131954b3fb 100644
--- a/fs/ecryptfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ecryptfs/inode.c
@@ -357,10 +357,6 @@ static struct dentry *ecryptfs_lookup(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry,
 		ecryptfs_printk(KERN_DEBUG, "Is a special file; returning\n");
 		goto out;
 	}
-	if (special_file(lower_inode->i_mode)) {
-		ecryptfs_printk(KERN_DEBUG, "Is a special file; returning\n");
-		goto out;
-	}
 	if (!nd) {
 		ecryptfs_printk(KERN_DEBUG, "We have a NULL nd, just leave"
 				"as we *think* we are about to unlink\n");