The patch titled autofs4: remove unneeded null check in try_to_fill_dentry() has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is autofs4-remove-unneeded-null-check-in-try_to_fill_dentry.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/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: autofs4: remove unneeded null check in try_to_fill_dentry() From: Dan Carpenter <error27@xxxxxxxxx> After 97e7449a7ad: "autofs4: fix indirect mount pending expire race" we no longer assumed that "ino" can be null. The other null checks got removed but this was one was missed. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ian Kent <raven@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/autofs4/root.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN fs/autofs4/root.c~autofs4-remove-unneeded-null-check-in-try_to_fill_dentry fs/autofs4/root.c --- a/fs/autofs4/root.c~autofs4-remove-unneeded-null-check-in-try_to_fill_dentry +++ a/fs/autofs4/root.c @@ -198,8 +198,7 @@ static int try_to_fill_dentry(struct den } /* Initialize expiry counter after successful mount */ - if (ino) - ino->last_used = jiffies; + ino->last_used = jiffies; spin_lock(&sbi->fs_lock); ino->flags &= ~AUTOFS_INF_PENDING; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from error27@xxxxxxxxx are origin.patch linux-next.patch mtd-sst25l-check-for-null-consistently.patch scsi-remove-superfluous-null-pointer-check-from-scsi_kill_request.patch padata-add-parenthesis-in-max_seq_nr-macro.patch keys-propagate-error-code-instead-of-returning-einval.patch autofs4-remove-unneeded-null-check-in-try_to_fill_dentry.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