From: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 20:05:53 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: vfs: remove redundant position check in do_sendfile
X-Git-Url: https://git.stricted.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f9098980ffea9c749622ff8ddf3b6d5831902a46;p=GitHub%2Fexynos8895%2Fandroid_kernel_samsung_universal8895.git

vfs: remove redundant position check in do_sendfile

As Johannes Weiner pointed out, one of the range checks in do_sendfile
is redundant and is already checked in rw_verify_area.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Robert Love <rlove@google.com>
Cc: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
---

diff --git a/fs/read_write.c b/fs/read_write.c
index 6c8c55dec2bc..3ac28987f22a 100644
--- a/fs/read_write.c
+++ b/fs/read_write.c
@@ -839,9 +839,6 @@ static ssize_t do_sendfile(int out_fd, int in_fd, loff_t *ppos,
 		max = min(in_inode->i_sb->s_maxbytes, out_inode->i_sb->s_maxbytes);
 
 	pos = *ppos;
-	retval = -EINVAL;
-	if (unlikely(pos < 0))
-		goto fput_out;
 	if (unlikely(pos + count > max)) {
 		retval = -EOVERFLOW;
 		if (pos >= max)