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| author | Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> | 2014-01-11 18:23:23 -0500 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2014-01-11 15:40:19 -0800 |
| commit | 88533f990c616cf50c2fe585ea03f75c806a293d (patch) | |
| tree | e617079daee5aca361f4f531102bd7866a755125 /fs/kernfs | |
| parent | 2a41e6070dd7ef539d0f3b1652b4839d04378e11 (diff) | |
kernfs: remove unnecessary NULL check in __kernfs_remove()
895a068a524e ("kernfs: make kernfs_get_active() block if the node is
deactivated but not removed") added "struct kernfs_root *root =
kernfs_root(kn);" at the head of the function; however, the parameter
@kn is checked for later implying that the function may be called with
NULL. This means that we may end up invoking kernfs_root() with NULL
which will oops. None of the existing users invokes removal with NULL
@kn, so this bug doesn't actually trigger.
We can relocate kernfs_root() invocation after NULL check; however,
allowing NULL param tends to cause more confusion than actually
helping anything. As there's no existing user, let's remove the
spurious NULL check.
This bug was detected by smatch.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/kernfs')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/kernfs/dir.c | 3 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/fs/kernfs/dir.c b/fs/kernfs/dir.c index a8028be6cdb7..4076e8a7c269 100644 --- a/fs/kernfs/dir.c +++ b/fs/kernfs/dir.c @@ -920,9 +920,6 @@ static void __kernfs_remove(struct kernfs_node *kn) lockdep_assert_held(&kernfs_mutex); - if (!kn) - return; - pr_debug("kernfs %s: removing\n", kn->name); __kernfs_deactivate(kn); |