return -EIO; is *not* a blocking operation, thank you very much. Nick, what the hell have you been smoking? Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
@@ -231,9 +231,6 @@ static int bad_inode_readlink(struct dentry *dentry, char __user *buffer,
static int bad_inode_permission(struct inode *inode, int mask, unsigned int flags)
{
- if (flags & IPERM_FLAG_RCU)
- return -ECHILD;
-
return -EIO;
}