On Wed, 2022-06-22 at 05:15 +0100, Al Viro wrote: > zero maxpages is bogus, but best treated as "just return 0"; > NULL pages, OTOH, should be treated as a hard bug. > > get rid of now completely useless checks in xarray_get_pages{,_alloc}(). > > Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > lib/iov_iter.c | 9 ++------- > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/lib/iov_iter.c b/lib/iov_iter.c > index 9c25661684c6..5c985cf2858e 100644 > --- a/lib/iov_iter.c > +++ b/lib/iov_iter.c > @@ -1271,9 +1271,6 @@ static ssize_t iter_xarray_get_pages(struct iov_iter *i, > size_t size = maxsize; > loff_t pos; > > - if (!size || !maxpages) > - return 0; > - > pos = i->xarray_start + i->iov_offset; > index = pos >> PAGE_SHIFT; > offset = pos & ~PAGE_MASK; > @@ -1365,10 +1362,11 @@ ssize_t iov_iter_get_pages(struct iov_iter *i, > > if (maxsize > i->count) > maxsize = i->count; > - if (!maxsize) > + if (!maxsize || !maxpages) > return 0; > if (maxsize > MAX_RW_COUNT) > maxsize = MAX_RW_COUNT; > + BUG_ON(!pages); > > if (likely(user_backed_iter(i))) { > unsigned int gup_flags = 0; > @@ -1441,9 +1439,6 @@ static ssize_t iter_xarray_get_pages_alloc(struct iov_iter *i, > size_t size = maxsize; > loff_t pos; > > - if (!size) > - return 0; > - > pos = i->xarray_start + i->iov_offset; > index = pos >> PAGE_SHIFT; > offset = pos & ~PAGE_MASK; Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>