Re: [PATCH 3/5] uprobes: Kill the unnecesary filp != NULL check in__copy_insn()

From: Anton Arapov
Date: Mon Mar 25 2013 - 06:31:35 EST


On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 07:21:18PM +0100, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> __copy_insn(filp) can only be called after valid_vma() returns T,
> vma->vm_file passed as "filp" can not be NULL.
>
> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> kernel/events/uprobes.c | 3 ---
> 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/events/uprobes.c b/kernel/events/uprobes.c
> index 0a759c6..e5d479f 100644
> --- a/kernel/events/uprobes.c
> +++ b/kernel/events/uprobes.c
> @@ -478,9 +478,6 @@ __copy_insn(struct address_space *mapping, struct file *filp, char *insn,
> {
> struct page *page;
>
> - if (!filp)
> - return -EINVAL;
> -
> if (!mapping->a_ops->readpage)
> return -EIO;
> /*
> --
> 1.5.5.1
>
Acked-by: Anton Arapov <anton@xxxxxxxxxx>
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