linux-kernel - [PATCH] [17/106] UBIFS: do not read flash unnecessarily

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Date:	Tue, 26 Apr 2011 14:12:55 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	Artem.Bityutskiy@...ia.com, gregkh@...e.de, ak@...ux.intel.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...nel.org,
	tim.bird@...sony.com
Subject: [PATCH] [17/106] UBIFS: do not read flash unnecessarily

2.6.35-longterm review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@...ia.com>

commit 8b229c76765816796eec7ccd428f03bd8de8b525 upstream.

This fix makes the 'dbg_check_old_index()' function return
immediately if debugging is disabled, instead of executing
incorrect 'goto out' which causes UBIFS to:

1. Allocate memory
2. Read the flash

On every commit. OK, we do not commit that often, but it is
still silly to do unneeded I/O anyway.

Credits to coverity for spotting this silly issue.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@...ia.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>

---
 fs/ubifs/commit.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Index: linux-2.6.35.y/fs/ubifs/commit.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.35.y.orig/fs/ubifs/commit.c
+++ linux-2.6.35.y/fs/ubifs/commit.c
@@ -519,7 +519,7 @@ int dbg_check_old_index(struct ubifs_inf
 	size_t sz;
 
 	if (!(ubifs_chk_flags & UBIFS_CHK_OLD_IDX))
-		goto out;
+		return 0;
 
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&list);
 
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