This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled sunrpc: removed redundant procp check to the 6.1-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: sunrpc-removed-redundant-procp-check.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 0ec815dc57f3908b484804c4b7d3c8563a009ea4 Author: Aleksandr Aprelkov <aaprelkov@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed Mar 27 14:10:44 2024 +0700 sunrpc: removed redundant procp check [ Upstream commit a576f36971ab4097b6aa76433532aa1fb5ee2d3b ] since vs_proc pointer is dereferenced before getting it's address there's no need to check for NULL. Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE. Fixes: 8e5b67731d08 ("SUNRPC: Add a callback to initialise server requests") Signed-off-by: Aleksandr Aprelkov <aaprelkov@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/net/sunrpc/svc.c b/net/sunrpc/svc.c index 9b0b21cccca9a..666d738bcf07e 100644 --- a/net/sunrpc/svc.c +++ b/net/sunrpc/svc.c @@ -1205,8 +1205,6 @@ svc_generic_init_request(struct svc_rqst *rqstp, if (rqstp->rq_proc >= versp->vs_nproc) goto err_bad_proc; rqstp->rq_procinfo = procp = &versp->vs_proc[rqstp->rq_proc]; - if (!procp) - goto err_bad_proc; /* Initialize storage for argp and resp */ memset(rqstp->rq_argp, 0, procp->pc_argzero);