linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/5] uprobes: Kill the unnecesary filp != NULL check in __copy

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Message-ID: <20130326120037.GE639@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date:	Tue, 26 Mar 2013 17:30:37 +0530
From:	Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
Cc:	Anton Arapov <anton@...hat.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Josh Stone <jistone@...hat.com>,
	Frank Eigler <fche@...hat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@...ibm.com>,
	adrian.m.negreanu@...el.com, Torsten.Polle@....de
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] uprobes: Kill the unnecesary filp != NULL check in
 __copy_insn()

* Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com> [2013-03-24 19:21:18]:

> __copy_insn(filp) can only be called after valid_vma() returns T,
> vma->vm_file passed as "filp" can not be NULL.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>

Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>

> ---
>  kernel/events/uprobes.c |    3 ---
>  1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/events/uprobes.c b/kernel/events/uprobes.c
> index 0a759c6..e5d479f 100644
> --- a/kernel/events/uprobes.c
> +++ b/kernel/events/uprobes.c
> @@ -478,9 +478,6 @@ __copy_insn(struct address_space *mapping, struct file *filp, char *insn,
>  {
>  	struct page *page;
> 
> -	if (!filp)
> -		return -EINVAL;
> -
>  	if (!mapping->a_ops->readpage)
>  		return -EIO;
>  	/*
> -- 
> 1.5.5.1
> 

-- 
Thanks and Regards
Srikar Dronamraju

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