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[v2] hugetlbfs: Remove useless BUG_ON(!inode) in hugetlbfs_setattr()

Message ID 20210118110700.52506-1-linmiaohe@huawei.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series [v2] hugetlbfs: Remove useless BUG_ON(!inode) in hugetlbfs_setattr() | expand

Commit Message

Miaohe Lin Jan. 18, 2021, 11:07 a.m. UTC
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(-)

Comments

Mike Kravetz Jan. 19, 2021, 6:46 p.m. UTC | #1
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>
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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;