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* alloc_file(): simplify handling of mnt_clone_write() errors
@ 2009-12-16 20:48 Roland Dreier
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From: Roland Dreier @ 2009-12-16 20:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel, Al Viro

When alloc_file() and init_file() were combined, the error handling of
mnt_clone_write() was taken into alloc_file() in a somewhat obfuscated
way.  Since we don't use the error code for anything except warning,
we might as well warn directly without an extra variable.

Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
---
 fs/file_table.c |    4 +---
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/file_table.c b/fs/file_table.c
index 17a55b8..25fe294 100644
--- a/fs/file_table.c
+++ b/fs/file_table.c
@@ -186,10 +186,8 @@ struct file *alloc_file(struct path *path, fmode_t mode,
 	 * that we can do debugging checks at __fput()
 	 */
 	if ((mode & FMODE_WRITE) && !special_file(path->dentry->d_inode->i_mode)) {
-		int error = 0;
 		file_take_write(file);
-		error = mnt_clone_write(path->mnt);
-		WARN_ON(error);
+		WARN_ON(mnt_clone_write(path->mnt));
 	}
 	ima_counts_get(file);
 	return file;

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