[PATCH v6 01/10] audit: remove unnecessary NULL ptr checks from do_path_lookup

Jeff Layton jlayton at redhat.com
Fri Sep 7 11:23:38 UTC 2012


As best I can tell, whenever retval == 0, nd->path.dentry and nd->inode
are also non-NULL. Eliminate those checks and the superfluous
audit_context check.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton at redhat.com>
---
 fs/namei.c | 8 ++------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index dd1ed1b..e3661762 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -1976,12 +1976,8 @@ static int do_path_lookup(int dfd, const char *name,
 	if (unlikely(retval == -ESTALE))
 		retval = path_lookupat(dfd, name, flags | LOOKUP_REVAL, nd);
 
-	if (likely(!retval)) {
-		if (unlikely(!audit_dummy_context())) {
-			if (nd->path.dentry && nd->inode)
-				audit_inode(name, nd->path.dentry);
-		}
-	}
+	if (likely(!retval))
+		audit_inode(name, nd->path.dentry);
 	return retval;
 }
 
-- 
1.7.11.4




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