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* [PATCH v2] hugetlbfs: Remove useless BUG_ON(!inode) in hugetlbfs_setattr()
@ 2021-01-18 11:07 Miaohe Lin
  2021-01-19 18:46 ` Mike Kravetz
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Miaohe Lin @ 2021-01-18 11:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: mike.kravetz; +Cc: linux-mm, linux-kernel, linmiaohe

When we reach here with inode = NULL, we should have crashed as inode has
already been dereferenced via hstate_inode. So this BUG_ON(!inode) does not
take effect and should be removed.

Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
---
 fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c | 2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c b/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c
index 016c863b493b..79464963f95e 100644
--- a/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c
@@ -759,8 +759,6 @@ static int hugetlbfs_setattr(struct dentry *dentry, struct iattr *attr)
 	unsigned int ia_valid = attr->ia_valid;
 	struct hugetlbfs_inode_info *info = HUGETLBFS_I(inode);
 
-	BUG_ON(!inode);
-
 	error = setattr_prepare(dentry, attr);
 	if (error)
 		return error;
-- 
2.19.1


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* Re: [PATCH v2] hugetlbfs: Remove useless BUG_ON(!inode) in hugetlbfs_setattr()
  2021-01-18 11:07 [PATCH v2] hugetlbfs: Remove useless BUG_ON(!inode) in hugetlbfs_setattr() Miaohe Lin
@ 2021-01-19 18:46 ` Mike Kravetz
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Mike Kravetz @ 2021-01-19 18:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Miaohe Lin; +Cc: linux-mm, linux-kernel, Andrew Morton

CC Andrew

On 1/18/21 3:07 AM, Miaohe Lin wrote:
> When we reach here with inode = NULL, we should have crashed as inode has
> already been dereferenced via hstate_inode. So this BUG_ON(!inode) does not
> take effect and should be removed.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
> ---
>  fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c | 2 --
>  1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

Thanks,

Reviewed-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>

-- 
Mike Kravetz

> 
> diff --git a/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c b/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c
> index 016c863b493b..79464963f95e 100644
> --- a/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c
> +++ b/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c
> @@ -759,8 +759,6 @@ static int hugetlbfs_setattr(struct dentry *dentry, struct iattr *attr)
>  	unsigned int ia_valid = attr->ia_valid;
>  	struct hugetlbfs_inode_info *info = HUGETLBFS_I(inode);
>  
> -	BUG_ON(!inode);
> -
>  	error = setattr_prepare(dentry, attr);
>  	if (error)
>  		return error;
> 

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