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* [patch 9/9] vfs: remove extraneous NULL d_inode check from do_filp_open
@ 2009-11-17 22:56 akpm
  2009-12-02 10:09 ` Miklos Szeredi
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: akpm @ 2009-11-17 22:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: viro; +Cc: linux-fsdevel, akpm, jlayton, hch

From: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>

We can't get to this point unless it's a valid pointer.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 fs/namei.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff -puN fs/namei.c~vfs-remove-extraneous-null-d_inode-check-from-do_filp_open fs/namei.c
--- a/fs/namei.c~vfs-remove-extraneous-null-d_inode-check-from-do_filp_open
+++ a/fs/namei.c
@@ -1818,7 +1818,7 @@ do_last:
 
 	path_to_nameidata(&path, &nd);
 	error = -EISDIR;
-	if (path.dentry->d_inode && S_ISDIR(path.dentry->d_inode->i_mode))
+	if (S_ISDIR(path.dentry->d_inode->i_mode))
 		goto exit;
 ok:
 	/*
_

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