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* [PATCH] mm: do_generic_file_read() doesn't need to validate filp
@ 2008-09-22  4:03 Krishna Kumar
  2008-09-22  5:32 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
  2008-09-22  7:47 ` Christoph Hellwig
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Krishna Kumar @ 2008-09-22  4:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel; +Cc: krkumar2, Krishna Kumar

From: Krishna Kumar <krkumar2@in.ibm.com>

do_generic_file_read() doesn't need to validate filp when accessing it. This
is probably a remnant of an earlier code.

Signed-off-by: Krishna Kumar <krkumar2@in.ibm.com>
---
 mm/filemap.c |    3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff -ruNp 2.6.27-rc7-org/mm/filemap.c 2.6.27-rc7-new/mm/filemap.c
--- 2.6.27-rc7-org/mm/filemap.c	2008-09-17 12:53:25.000000000 +0530
+++ 2.6.27-rc7-new/mm/filemap.c	2008-09-17 12:53:59.000000000 +0530
@@ -1186,8 +1186,7 @@ out:
 	ra->prev_pos |= prev_offset;
 
 	*ppos = ((loff_t)index << PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT) + offset;
-	if (filp)
-		file_accessed(filp);
+	file_accessed(filp);
 }
 
 int file_read_actor(read_descriptor_t *desc, struct page *page,

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