linux-kernel - [PATCH 2/3] exfat: remove useless check in exfat_move

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Date:   Fri, 11 Sep 2020 13:45:06 +0900
From:   Tetsuhiro Kohada <kohada.t2@...il.com>
To:     kohada.t2@...il.com
Cc:     kohada.tetsuhiro@...mitsubishielectric.co.jp,
        mori.takahiro@...mitsubishielectric.co.jp,
        motai.hirotaka@...mitsubishielectric.co.jp,
        Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@...sung.com>,
        Sungjong Seo <sj1557.seo@...sung.com>,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] exfat: remove useless check in exfat_move_file()

In exfat_move_file(), the identity of source and target directory has been
checked by the caller.
Also, it gets stream.start_clu from file dir-entry, which is an invalid
determination.

Signed-off-by: Tetsuhiro Kohada <kohada.t2@...il.com>
---
 fs/exfat/namei.c | 5 -----
 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/exfat/namei.c b/fs/exfat/namei.c
index 803748946ddb..1c433491f771 100644
--- a/fs/exfat/namei.c
+++ b/fs/exfat/namei.c
@@ -1095,11 +1095,6 @@ static int exfat_move_file(struct inode *inode, struct exfat_chain *p_olddir,
 	if (!epmov)
 		return -EIO;
 
-	/* check if the source and target directory is the same */
-	if (exfat_get_entry_type(epmov) == TYPE_DIR &&
-	    le32_to_cpu(epmov->dentry.stream.start_clu) == p_newdir->dir)
-		return -EINVAL;
-
 	num_old_entries = exfat_count_ext_entries(sb, p_olddir, oldentry,
 		epmov);
 	if (num_old_entries < 0)
-- 
2.25.1