linux-kernel - Re: [Patch] Remove unnecessary check in fs/fat/inode.c

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Date:	Thu, 05 Oct 2006 01:36:28 +0900
From:	OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp>
To:	Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@....de>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
Subject: Re: [Patch] Remove unnecessary check in fs/fat/inode.c

Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@....de> writes:

> since all callers dereference sb, and this function
> does so earlier too, we dont need the check.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@....de>
>
> --- linux-2.6.18-git21/fs/fat/inode.c.orig	2006-10-04 18:21:03.000000000 +0200
> +++ linux-2.6.18-git21/fs/fat/inode.c	2006-10-04 18:21:22.000000000 +0200
> @@ -1472,7 +1472,7 @@ int fat_flush_inodes(struct super_block 
>  		ret = writeback_inode(i1);
>  	if (!ret && i2)
>  		ret = writeback_inode(i2);
> -	if (!ret && sb) {
> +	if (!ret) {
>  		struct address_space *mapping = sb->s_bdev->bd_inode->i_mapping;
>  		ret = filemap_flush(mapping);
>  	}

Acked-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp>

Thanks.
-- 
OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp>
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