linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] fs: ocfs2: move_extents.c: Fix to remove null pointer checks that could never happen

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Date:	Thu, 29 May 2014 14:03:37 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Rickard Strandqvist <rickard_strandqvist@...ctrumdigital.se>
Cc:	Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@...e.com>, Joel Becker <jlbec@...lplan.org>,
	ocfs2-devel@....oracle.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs: ocfs2: move_extents.c:  Fix to remove null pointer
 checks that could never happen

On Tue, 27 May 2014 22:23:51 +0200 Rickard Strandqvist <rickard_strandqvist@...ctrumdigital.se> wrote:

> Removal of null pointer checks that could never happen

How do you know it never happens?

> --- a/fs/ocfs2/move_extents.c
> +++ b/fs/ocfs2/move_extents.c
> @@ -904,9 +904,6 @@ static int ocfs2_move_extents(struct ocfs2_move_extents_context *context)
>  	struct buffer_head *di_bh = NULL;
>  	struct ocfs2_super *osb = OCFS2_SB(inode->i_sb);
>  
> -	if (!inode)
> -		return -ENOENT;
> -

If it's due to assuming that the previous statement would have oopsed
then that is mistaken.  Is is sometimes the case that gcc will move the
evaluation of inode->i_sb to after the test, so this function can be
passed NULL and it will not oops.

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