fsync codepath assumes that f_mapping can never be NULL, but
sync_file_range has a check for that. Remove the one from sync_file_range
as I don't see how you'd ever get a NULL pointer in here.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/sync.c | 5 -----
1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/sync.c b/fs/sync.c
index 11ba023434b1..45ecf6854595 100644
--- a/fs/sync.c
+++ b/fs/sync.c
@@ -335,11 +335,6 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(sync_file_range, int, fd, loff_t, offset, loff_t, nbytes,
goto out_put;
mapping = f.file->f_mapping;
- if (!mapping) {
- ret = -EINVAL;
- goto out_put;
- }
-
ret = 0;
if (flags & SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WAIT_BEFORE) {
ret = filemap_fdatawait_range(mapping, offset, endbyte);
--
2.9.4
