linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 5/8] staging/lustre/llite: Fix suspicious dereference of pointer 'vma->vm

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Date:   Wed, 24 Aug 2016 11:11:55 -0400
From:   Oleg Drokin <green@...uxhacker.ru>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
        Andreas Dilger <andreas.dilger@...el.com>,
        James Simmons <jsimmons@...radead.org>
Cc:     Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Lustre Development List <lustre-devel@...ts.lustre.org>,
        Dmitry Eremin <dmitry.eremin@...el.com>,
        Oleg Drokin <green@...uxhacker.ru>
Subject: [PATCH v2 5/8] staging/lustre/llite: Fix suspicious dereference of pointer 'vma->vm_file'

From: Dmitry Eremin <dmitry.eremin@...el.com>

Remove useless LASSERT(vma->vm_file) because of if it's NULL it
will crash early in file_inode(vma->vm_file).

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Eremin <dmitry.eremin@...el.com>
Reviewed-on: http://review.whamcloud.com/21171
Intel-bug-id: https://jira.hpdd.intel.com/browse/LU-8372
Reviewed-by: John L. Hammond <john.hammond@...el.com>
Reviewed-by: Bob Glossman <bob.glossman@...el.com>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Drokin <green@...uxhacker.ru>
---
 drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/llite_mmap.c | 2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/llite_mmap.c b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/llite_mmap.c
index 9d03e79..37f82ed 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/llite_mmap.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/llite_mmap.c
@@ -429,7 +429,6 @@ static void ll_vm_open(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
 	struct inode *inode    = file_inode(vma->vm_file);
 	struct vvp_object *vob = cl_inode2vvp(inode);
 
-	LASSERT(vma->vm_file);
 	LASSERT(atomic_read(&vob->vob_mmap_cnt) >= 0);
 	atomic_inc(&vob->vob_mmap_cnt);
 }
@@ -442,7 +441,6 @@ static void ll_vm_close(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
 	struct inode      *inode = file_inode(vma->vm_file);
 	struct vvp_object *vob   = cl_inode2vvp(inode);
 
-	LASSERT(vma->vm_file);
 	atomic_dec(&vob->vob_mmap_cnt);
 	LASSERT(atomic_read(&vob->vob_mmap_cnt) >= 0);
 }
-- 
2.7.4