The patch titled vfs: remove superflous sb == NULL checks has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is vfs-remove-superflous-sb-==-null-checks.patch *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: vfs: remove superflous sb == NULL checks From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> inode->i_sb is always set, not need to check for it. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/inode.c | 4 ++-- fs/ioctl.c | 2 -- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff -puN fs/inode.c~vfs-remove-superflous-sb-==-null-checks fs/inode.c --- a/fs/inode.c~vfs-remove-superflous-sb-==-null-checks +++ a/fs/inode.c @@ -251,7 +251,7 @@ void clear_inode(struct inode *inode) BUG_ON(inode->i_state & I_CLEAR); wait_on_inode(inode); DQUOT_DROP(inode); - if (inode->i_sb && inode->i_sb->s_op->clear_inode) + if (inode->i_sb->s_op->clear_inode) inode->i_sb->s_op->clear_inode(inode); if (S_ISBLK(inode->i_mode) && inode->i_bdev) bd_forget(inode); @@ -1047,7 +1047,7 @@ static void generic_forget_inode(struct if (!(inode->i_state & (I_DIRTY|I_LOCK))) list_move(&inode->i_list, &inode_unused); inodes_stat.nr_unused++; - if (!sb || (sb->s_flags & MS_ACTIVE)) { + if (sb->s_flags & MS_ACTIVE) { spin_unlock(&inode_lock); return; } diff -puN fs/ioctl.c~vfs-remove-superflous-sb-==-null-checks fs/ioctl.c --- a/fs/ioctl.c~vfs-remove-superflous-sb-==-null-checks +++ a/fs/ioctl.c @@ -67,8 +67,6 @@ static int file_ioctl(struct file *filp, return put_user(res, p); } case FIGETBSZ: - if (inode->i_sb == NULL) - return -EBADF; return put_user(inode->i_sb->s_blocksize, p); case FIONREAD: return put_user(i_size_read(inode) - filp->f_pos, p); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from hch@xxxxxx are xfs-use-xfs_get_buf_noaddr-for-iclogs.patch xfs-stop-using-kmalloc-in-xfs_buf_get_noaddr.patch simplify-the-stacktrace-code.patch allow-access-to-proc-pid-fd-after-setuid.patch fix-quadratic-behavior-of-shrink_dcache_parent.patch freevxfs-possible-null-pointer-dereference-fix.patch vfs-remove-superflous-sb-==-null-checks.patch nameic-remove-utterly-outdated-comment.patch make-static-counters-in-new_inode-and-iunique-be-32-bits.patch change-libfs-sb-creation-routines-to-avoid-collisions-with-their-root-inodes.patch aio-is-unlikely.patch ps3fb-thread-updates.patch ps3av-thread-updates.patch ps3fb-kill-superfluous-zero-initializations.patch ps3av-misc-updates.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html