From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752555AbYIVHr3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Sep 2008 03:47:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751757AbYIVHrV (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Sep 2008 03:47:21 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:58870 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751760AbYIVHrV (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Sep 2008 03:47:21 -0400 Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 03:47:20 -0400 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Krishna Kumar Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: do_generic_file_read() doesn't need to validate filp Message-ID: <20080922074720.GA12452@infradead.org> References: <20080922040325.10196.87900.sendpatchset@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080922040325.10196.87900.sendpatchset@localhost.localdomain> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 09:33:25AM +0530, Krishna Kumar wrote: > From: Krishna Kumar > > do_generic_file_read() doesn't need to validate filp when accessing it. This > is probably a remnant of an earlier code. Looks good, thanks.