NFSD: Clean up nfsd_open_verified()

Its only caller always passes S_IFREG as the @type parameter. As an
additional clean-up, add a kerneldoc comment.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/fs/nfsd/vfs.c b/fs/nfsd/vfs.c
index 0b0dbb8e0894..840e3af63a6f 100644
--- a/fs/nfsd/vfs.c
+++ b/fs/nfsd/vfs.c
@@ -827,14 +827,23 @@ retry:
 	return err;
 }
 
+/**
+ * nfsd_open_verified - Open a regular file for the filecache
+ * @rqstp: RPC request
+ * @fhp: NFS filehandle of the file to open
+ * @may_flags: internal permission flags
+ * @filp: OUT: open "struct file *"
+ *
+ * Returns an nfsstat value in network byte order.
+ */
 __be32
-nfsd_open_verified(struct svc_rqst *rqstp, struct svc_fh *fhp, umode_t type,
-		int may_flags, struct file **filp)
+nfsd_open_verified(struct svc_rqst *rqstp, struct svc_fh *fhp, int may_flags,
+		   struct file **filp)
 {
 	__be32 err;
 
 	validate_process_creds();
-	err = __nfsd_open(rqstp, fhp, type, may_flags, filp);
+	err = __nfsd_open(rqstp, fhp, S_IFREG, may_flags, filp);
 	validate_process_creds();
 	return err;
 }