linux-kernel - Re: + cifs-remove-unneeded-checks.patch added to -mm tree

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Date:	Mon, 02 Apr 2007 15:36:01 -0500
From:	Steve French <smfrench@...tin.rr.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, hch@....de, akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: + cifs-remove-unneeded-checks.patch added to -mm tree

On Mon, 2007-04-02 at 13:51 -0500, Steven French wrote:
> akpm@...ux-foundation.org wrote on 03/11/2007 03:57:40 AM:
> 
> > 
> > The patch titled
> >      cifs: remove unneeded checks
> > has been added to the -mm tree.  Its filename is
> >      cifs-remove-unneeded-checks.patch
> > 
> > ------------------------------------------------------
> > Subject: cifs: remove unneeded checks
> > From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
> > 
> > file->f_path.dentry or file->f_path.dentry.d_inode can't be NULL since at
> > least ten years, similar for all but very few arguments passed in from the
> > VFS.

I merged most of Christoph's cifs-remove-unneeded-checks patch into the
cifs-2.6 development tree. The part I did not merge was a little harder
to verify and vaguely reminded me of the old bug report.  The part I
left out is attached (I don't mind leaving that part in mm a little
longer to make sure it is safe).



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