Messages in this thread Patch in this message |  | | | From | Krishna Kumar <> | | Date | Mon, 22 Sep 2008 09:33:25 +0530 | | Subject | [PATCH] mm: do_generic_file_read() doesn't need to validate filp | |
From: Krishna Kumar <krkumar2@in.ibm.com>
do_generic_file_read() doesn't need to validate filp when accessing it. This
is probably a remnant of an earlier code.
Signed-off-by: Krishna Kumar <krkumar2@in.ibm.com>
---
mm/filemap.c | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff -ruNp 2.6.27-rc7-org/mm/filemap.c 2.6.27-rc7-new/mm/filemap.c
--- 2.6.27-rc7-org/mm/filemap.c 2008-09-17 12:53:25.000000000 +0530
+++ 2.6.27-rc7-new/mm/filemap.c 2008-09-17 12:53:59.000000000 +0530
@@ -1186,8 +1186,7 @@ out:
ra->prev_pos |= prev_offset;
*ppos = ((loff_t)index << PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT) + offset;
- if (filp)
- file_accessed(filp);
+ file_accessed(filp);
}
int file_read_actor(read_descriptor_t *desc, struct page *page,
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