uprobes: Kill the pointless inode/uc checks in register/unregister
register/unregister verifies that inode/uc != NULL. For what?
This really looks like "hide the potential problem", the caller
should pass the valid data.
register() also checks uc->next == NULL, probably to prevent the
double-register but the caller can do other stupid/wrong things.
If we do this check, then we should document that uc->next should
be cleared before register() and add BUG_ON().
Also add the small comment about the i_size_read() check.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
diff --git a/kernel/events/uprobes.c b/kernel/events/uprobes.c
index afbab2c..a39d816 100644
--- a/kernel/events/uprobes.c
+++ b/kernel/events/uprobes.c
@@ -844,9 +844,7 @@
struct uprobe *uprobe;
int ret;
- if (!inode || !uc || uc->next)
- return -EINVAL;
-
+ /* Racy, just to catch the obvious mistakes */
if (offset > i_size_read(inode))
return -EINVAL;
@@ -883,9 +881,6 @@
{
struct uprobe *uprobe;
- if (!inode || !uc)
- return;
-
uprobe = find_uprobe(inode, offset);
if (!uprobe)
return;