linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/3] dtlk: remove double call to nonseekable

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Message-Id: <184012ad69b275a17d6fa40a8d4dcf15ef76c4d2.1557162679.git.kirr@nexedi.com>
Date:   Mon, 06 May 2019 17:20:46 +0000
From:   Kirill Smelkov <kirr@...edi.com>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Pavel Machek <pavel@...x.de>,
        Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>,
        Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>,
        <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Kirill Smelkov <kirr@...edi.com>
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] dtlk: remove double call to nonseekable_open

dtlk_open currently has 2 calls to nonseekable_open which are both
executed on success path. It was not hurting to make the extra call as
nonseekable_open is only changing file->f_flags in idempotent way.
However the first nonseekable_open is indeed both unneeded and looks
suspicious.

The first nonseekable_open was added in 6244f13c51 ("Fix up a couple of
drivers - notable sg - for nonseekability."; 2004-Aug-7). The second
nonseekable_open call was introduced in dc5c724584 ("Remove ESPIPE logic
from drivers, letting the VFS layer handle it instead.; 2004-Aug-8). The
latter patch being mass change probably missed to remove
nonseekable_open that was introduced into dtlk_open the day before.

Fix it: remove the extra/unneeded nonseekable_open call and leave the
call to nonseekable_open only on the path where we are actually opening
the file.

Suggested-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@...x.de>
Signed-off-by: Kirill Smelkov <kirr@...edi.com>
---
 drivers/char/dtlk.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/char/dtlk.c b/drivers/char/dtlk.c
index f882460b5a44..669c3311adc4 100644
--- a/drivers/char/dtlk.c
+++ b/drivers/char/dtlk.c
@@ -298,7 +298,6 @@ static int dtlk_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
 {
 	TRACE_TEXT("(dtlk_open");

-	nonseekable_open(inode, file);
 	switch (iminor(inode)) {
 	case DTLK_MINOR:
 		if (dtlk_busy)
-- 
2.20.1