The patch titled Subject: proc: delete redundant subset=pid check has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is proc-delete-redundant-subset=pid-check.patch This patch should soon appear at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/proc-delete-redundant-subset%3Dpid-check.patch and later at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/proc-delete-redundant-subset%3Dpid-check.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: proc: delete redundant subset=pid check Two checks in lookup and readdir code should be enough to not have third check in open code. Can't open what can't be looked up? Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/YFYYwIBIkytqnkxP@localhost.localdomain Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Alexey Gladkov <gladkov.alexey@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/proc/inode.c | 4 ---- 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-) --- a/fs/proc/inode.c~proc-delete-redundant-subset=pid-check +++ a/fs/proc/inode.c @@ -493,7 +493,6 @@ proc_reg_get_unmapped_area(struct file * static int proc_reg_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file) { - struct proc_fs_info *fs_info = proc_sb_info(inode->i_sb); struct proc_dir_entry *pde = PDE(inode); int rv = 0; typeof_member(struct proc_ops, proc_open) open; @@ -507,9 +506,6 @@ static int proc_reg_open(struct inode *i return rv; } - if (fs_info->pidonly == PROC_PIDONLY_ON) - return -ENOENT; - /* * Ensure that * 1) PDE's ->release hook will be called no matter what _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx are proc-delete-redundant-subset=pid-check.patch proc-test-subset=pid.patch