linux-kernel - [PATCH 7/7] uprobes: Kill the bogus IS_ERR_VALUE(xol

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Date:	Mon, 31 Dec 2012 18:52:32 +0100
From:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@...ibm.com>,
	Anton Arapov <anton@...hat.com>,
	Frank Eigler <fche@...hat.com>,
	Josh Stone <jistone@...hat.com>,
	"Suzuki K. Poulose" <suzuki@...ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 7/7] uprobes: Kill the bogus IS_ERR_VALUE(xol_vaddr) check

utask->xol_vaddr is either zero or valid, remove the bogus
IS_ERR_VALUE() check in xol_free_insn_slot().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
---
 kernel/events/uprobes.c |    3 +--
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/events/uprobes.c b/kernel/events/uprobes.c
index ad1245d..ed4fcbe 100644
--- a/kernel/events/uprobes.c
+++ b/kernel/events/uprobes.c
@@ -1223,8 +1223,7 @@ static void xol_free_insn_slot(struct task_struct *tsk)
 		return;
 
 	slot_addr = tsk->utask->xol_vaddr;
-
-	if (unlikely(!slot_addr || IS_ERR_VALUE(slot_addr)))
+	if (unlikely(!slot_addr))
 		return;
 
 	area = tsk->mm->uprobes_state.xol_area;
-- 
1.5.5.1

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