Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
@@ -2914,11 +2914,6 @@ static int atomic_open(struct nameidata *nd, struct dentry *dentry,
error = create_error;
goto out;
}
- } else {
- if (excl && !(*opened & FILE_CREATED)) {
- error = -EEXIST;
- goto out;
- }
goto looked_up;