The patch titled vfs: remove redundant position check in do_sendfile has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was vfs-remove-redundant-position-check-in-do_sendfile.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: vfs: remove redundant position check in do_sendfile From: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> As Johannes Weiner pointed out, one of the range checks in do_sendfile is redundant and is already checked in rw_verify_area. Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Cc: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Robert Love <rlove@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/read_write.c | 3 --- 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-) diff -puN fs/read_write.c~vfs-remove-redundant-position-check-in-do_sendfile fs/read_write.c --- a/fs/read_write.c~vfs-remove-redundant-position-check-in-do_sendfile +++ a/fs/read_write.c @@ -839,9 +839,6 @@ static ssize_t do_sendfile(int out_fd, i max = min(in_inode->i_sb->s_maxbytes, out_inode->i_sb->s_maxbytes); pos = *ppos; - retval = -EINVAL; - if (unlikely(pos < 0)) - goto fput_out; if (unlikely(pos + count > max)) { retval = -EOVERFLOW; if (pos >= max) _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx are origin.patch linux-next.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