Re: [PATCH] MIPS: Remove incorrect NULL check in local_flush_tlb_page()

From: Maciej W. Rozycki
Date: Sun Jul 06 2014 - 07:19:51 EST


On Sun, 6 Jul 2014, Jonas Gorski wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 1:23 AM, Emil Goode <emilgoode@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > We check that the struct vm_area_struct pointer vma is NULL and then
> > dereference it a few lines below. The intent was to make sure vma is
> > not NULL but this is not necessary since the bug pre-dates GIT history
> > and seem to never have caused a problem. The tlb-4k and tlb-8k versions
> > of local_flush_tlb_page() don't bother checking if vma is NULL, also
> > vma is dereferenced before being passed to local_flush_tlb_page(),
> > thus it is safe to remove this NULL check.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Emil Goode <emilgoode@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Looks good.
>
> Reviewed-by: Jonas Gorski <jogo@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

(as per the observations at the previous version).

Maciej
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