Re: [PATCH] cachefiles: Drop superfluous readpages aops NULL check

From: Matthew Wilcox
Date: Mon Oct 19 2020 - 11:05:46 EST


On Mon, Oct 19, 2020 at 03:56:54PM +0100, David Howells wrote:
> From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx>
>
> After the recent actions to convert readpages aops to readahead, the
> NULL checks of readpages aops in cachefiles_read_or_alloc_page() may
> hit falsely. More badly, it's an ASSERT() call, and this panics.
>
> Drop the superfluous NULL checks for fixing this regression.
>
> [DH: Note that cachefiles never actually used readpages, so this check was
> never actually necessary]
>
> BugLink: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=208883
> BugLink: https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1175245
> Fixes: 9ae326a69004 ("CacheFiles: A cache that backs onto a mounted filesystem")
> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
> cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>