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SubjectRe: [PATCH] mm: do_generic_file_read() never gets a NULL 'filp' argument
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 01:33:38AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Sep 2008 11:46:10 +0530 Krishna Kumar <krkumar2@in.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> > From: Krishna Kumar <krkumar2@in.ibm.com>
> >
> > The 'filp' argument to do_generic_file_read() is never NULL.
> >
>
> How did you verify this?
>
> NFS used to like passing NULL file*'s into VFS functions. I don't
> recall whether it affected do_generic_file_read().

The only thing nfsd passed a NULL file pointer in is ->fsync on
directories. If anyone did pass a NULL file pointer into
do_generic_file_read it would oops in it's very first line of code.


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