The patch titled vfs: remove extraneous NULL d_inode check from do_filp_open has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was vfs-remove-extraneous-null-d_inode-check-from-do_filp_open.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 extraneous NULL d_inode check from do_filp_open From: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> We can't get to this point unless it's a valid pointer. Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Acked-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/namei.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN fs/namei.c~vfs-remove-extraneous-null-d_inode-check-from-do_filp_open fs/namei.c --- a/fs/namei.c~vfs-remove-extraneous-null-d_inode-check-from-do_filp_open +++ a/fs/namei.c @@ -1796,7 +1796,7 @@ do_last: path_to_nameidata(&path, &nd); error = -EISDIR; - if (path.dentry->d_inode && S_ISDIR(path.dentry->d_inode->i_mode)) + if (S_ISDIR(path.dentry->d_inode->i_mode)) goto exit; ok: /* _ 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