linux-kernel - [PATCH 3/7] uprobes: Kill the pointless inode/uc checks in register/unregister

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Message-ID: <20121123202806.GA18887@redhat.com>
Date:	Fri, 23 Nov 2012 21:28:06 +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>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 3/7] uprobes: Kill the pointless inode/uc checks in
	register/unregister

register/unregister verifies that inode/uc != NULL. For what?
This really looks like "hide the potential problem", the caller
should pass the valid data.

register() also checks uc->next == NULL, probably to prevent the
double-register but the caller can do other stupid/wrong things.
If we do this check, then we should document that uc->next should
be cleared before register() and add BUG_ON().

Also add the small comment about the i_size_read() check.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
---
 kernel/events/uprobes.c |    7 +------
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/events/uprobes.c b/kernel/events/uprobes.c
index 13b247c..d8e930a 100644
--- a/kernel/events/uprobes.c
+++ b/kernel/events/uprobes.c
@@ -844,9 +844,7 @@ int uprobe_register(struct inode *inode, loff_t offset, struct uprobe_consumer *
 	struct uprobe *uprobe;
 	int ret;
 
-	if (!inode || !uc || uc->next)
-		return -EINVAL;
-
+	/* Racy, just to catch the obvious mistakes */
 	if (offset > i_size_read(inode))
 		return -EINVAL;
 
@@ -883,9 +881,6 @@ void uprobe_unregister(struct inode *inode, loff_t offset, struct uprobe_consume
 {
 	struct uprobe *uprobe;
 
-	if (!inode || !uc)
-		return;
-
 	uprobe = find_uprobe(inode, offset);
 	if (!uprobe)
 		return;
-- 
1.5.5.1

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