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@xxxxxxxxxx> --- 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