From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, axboe@kernel.dk
Subject: block: remove dead code in scsi_ioctl:blk_verify_command
Date: Thu, 29 May 2014 15:11:30 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140529191130.GA10405@redhat.com> (raw)
filter gets assigned the address of blk_default_cmd_filter on
entry to this function, so the !filter condition can never be true.
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
diff --git a/block/scsi_ioctl.c b/block/scsi_ioctl.c
index 26487972ac54..9c28a5b38042 100644
--- a/block/scsi_ioctl.c
+++ b/block/scsi_ioctl.c
@@ -205,10 +205,6 @@ int blk_verify_command(unsigned char *cmd, fmode_t has_write_perm)
if (capable(CAP_SYS_RAWIO))
return 0;
- /* if there's no filter set, assume we're filtering everything out */
- if (!filter)
- return -EPERM;
-
/* Anybody who can open the device can do a read-safe command */
if (test_bit(cmd[0], filter->read_ok))
return 0;
next reply other threads:[~2014-05-29 19:11 UTC|newest]
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2014-05-29 19:11 Dave Jones [this message]
2014-05-29 19:39 ` block: remove dead code in scsi_ioctl:blk_verify_command Jens Axboe
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