This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled fsnotify: remove redundant parameter judgment to the 5.10-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: fsnotify-remove-redundant-parameter-judgment.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit e5d4e2e83a2e308eadc667cffaddeaeac3c22caf Author: Bang Li <libang.linuxer@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri Mar 11 23:12:40 2022 +0800 fsnotify: remove redundant parameter judgment [ Upstream commit f92ca72b0263d601807bbd23ed25cbe6f4da89f4 ] iput() has already judged the incoming parameter, so there is no need to repeat the judgment here. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220311151240.62045-1-libang.linuxer@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Bang Li <libang.linuxer@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/fs/notify/fsnotify.c b/fs/notify/fsnotify.c index 494f653efbc6e..70a8516b78bc5 100644 --- a/fs/notify/fsnotify.c +++ b/fs/notify/fsnotify.c @@ -70,8 +70,7 @@ static void fsnotify_unmount_inodes(struct super_block *sb) spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock); spin_unlock(&sb->s_inode_list_lock); - if (iput_inode) - iput(iput_inode); + iput(iput_inode); /* for each watch, send FS_UNMOUNT and then remove it */ fsnotify_inode(inode, FS_UNMOUNT); @@ -85,8 +84,7 @@ static void fsnotify_unmount_inodes(struct super_block *sb) } spin_unlock(&sb->s_inode_list_lock); - if (iput_inode) - iput(iput_inode); + iput(iput_inode); } void fsnotify_sb_delete(struct super_block *sb)