Re: [PATCH] Remove useless assertions from reiserfs

From: Jeff Garzik
Date: Mon Aug 11 2003 - 12:55:48 EST


Why are these useless?

davej@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
diff -urpN --exclude-from=/home/davej/.exclude bk-linus/fs/reiserfs/hashes.c linux-2.5/fs/reiserfs/hashes.c
--- bk-linus/fs/reiserfs/hashes.c 2003-04-10 06:01:29.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.5/fs/reiserfs/hashes.c 2003-07-13 06:04:57.000000000 +0100
@@ -90,10 +90,6 @@ u32 keyed_hash(const signed char *msg, i
if (len >= 12)
{
- //assert(len < 16);
- if (len >= 16)
- BUG();
-
a = (u32)msg[ 0] |
(u32)msg[ 1] << 8 |
(u32)msg[ 2] << 16|

Seems like a valid check to me...

Jeff




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