Subject: + fanotify-remove-useless-test-from-event-initialization.patch added to -mm tree
To: jack@xxxxxxx,eparis@xxxxxxxxxx
From: akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 14:01:32 -0800
The patch titled
Subject: fanotify: remove useless test from event initialization
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
fanotify-remove-useless-test-from-event-initialization.patch
This patch should soon appear at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/fanotify-remove-useless-test-from-event-initialization.patch
and later at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/fanotify-remove-useless-test-from-event-initialization.patch
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From: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
Subject: fanotify: remove useless test from event initialization
Fanotify processes only path events (fanotify_should_send_event() refuses
any other event) so checking whether event is a path event during
initialization makes no sense.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify.c | 9 ++-------
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff -puN fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify.c~fanotify-remove-useless-test-from-event-initialization fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify.c
--- a/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify.c~fanotify-remove-useless-test-from-event-initialization
+++ a/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify.c
@@ -166,13 +166,8 @@ static struct fanotify_event_info *alloc
init: __maybe_unused
fsnotify_init_event(&event->fse, inode, mask);
event->tgid = get_pid(task_tgid(current));
- if (data_type == FSNOTIFY_EVENT_PATH) {
- event->path = *path;
- path_get(&event->path);
- } else {
- event->path.mnt = NULL;
- event->path.dentry = NULL;
- }
+ event->path = *path;
+ path_get(&event->path);
return event;
}
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from jack@xxxxxxx are
origin.patch
fanotify-remove-useless-bypass_perm-check.patch
fanotify-use-fanotify-event-structure-for-permission-response-processing.patch
fanotify-remove-useless-test-from-event-initialization.patch
fanotify-convert-access_mutex-to-spinlock.patch
fanotify-reorganize-loop-in-fanotify_read.patch
fanotify-move-unrelated-handling-from-copy_event_to_user.patch
linux-next.patch
kernel-use-lockless-list-for-smp_call_function_single.patch
mm-add-strictlimit-knob-v2.patch
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