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/
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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
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