linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] hostfs: fix a not needed double check

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Date:	Sat, 24 Nov 2012 10:02:32 +0100
From:	Marco Stornelli <marco.stornelli@...il.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>, Jeff Dike <jdike@...toit.com>,
	user-mode-linux-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Linux FS Devel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] hostfs: fix a not needed double check

Il 18/11/2012 09:59, Marco Stornelli ha scritto:
> Il 20/10/2012 12:02, Marco Stornelli ha scritto:
>> With the commit 3be2be0a32c18b0fd6d623cda63174a332ca0de1 we removed
>> vmtruncate,
>> but actaully there is no need to call inode_newsize_ok() because the
>> checks are
>> already done in inode_change_ok() at the begin of the function.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Marco Stornelli <marco.stornelli@...il.com>

I didn't receive any feedback from Weinberger, could you consider this 
patch for next -rc?

Thanks.

Marco
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