The patch titled
Subject: fat: delete an unnecessary check before brelse()
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
fat-delete-an-unnecessary-check-before-brelse.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree
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From: Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: fat: delete an unnecessary check before brelse()
brelse() tests whether its argument is NULL and then returns immediately.
Thus the test around the call is not needed.
This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/cfff3b81-fb5d-af26-7b5e-724266509045@xxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/fat/dir.c | 4 +---
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- a/fs/fat/dir.c~fat-delete-an-unnecessary-check-before-brelse
+++ a/fs/fat/dir.c
@@ -88,9 +88,7 @@ static int fat__get_entry(struct inode *
int err, offset;
next:
- if (*bh)
- brelse(*bh);
-
+ brelse(*bh);
*bh = NULL;
iblock = *pos >> sb->s_blocksize_bits;
err = fat_bmap(dir, iblock, &phys, &mapped_blocks, 0, false);
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
