linux-kernel - [PATCH] mm: Remove redundant test from find_get_pages

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Date:   Mon,  7 Jan 2019 12:02:24 -0800
From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
Subject: [PATCH] mm: Remove redundant test from find_get_pages_contig

After we establish a reference on the page, we check the pointer continues
to be in the correct position in i_pages.  There's no need to check the
page->mapping or page->index afterwards; if those can change after we've
got the reference, they can change after we return the page to the caller.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
---
 mm/filemap.c | 10 ----------
 1 file changed, 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c
index 9f5e323e883e6..935fbc29aeb13 100644
--- a/mm/filemap.c
+++ b/mm/filemap.c
@@ -1837,16 +1837,6 @@ unsigned find_get_pages_contig(struct address_space *mapping, pgoff_t index,
 		if (unlikely(page != xas_reload(&xas)))
 			goto put_page;
 
-		/*
-		 * must check mapping and index after taking the ref.
-		 * otherwise we can get both false positives and false
-		 * negatives, which is just confusing to the caller.
-		 */
-		if (!page->mapping || page_to_pgoff(page) != xas.xa_index) {
-			put_page(page);
-			break;
-		}
-
 		pages[ret] = page;
 		if (++ret == nr_pages)
 			break;
-- 
2.20.1