Commit c59c2eb5 authored by Michael Halcrow's avatar Michael Halcrow Committed by Linus Torvalds

eCryptfs: remove unnecessary BUG_ON

Andrew Morton wrote:
> > +     mutex_lock(&mount_crypt_stat->global_auth_tok_list_mutex);
> > +     BUG_ON(mount_crypt_stat->num_global_auth_toks == 0);
> > +     mutex_unlock(&mount_crypt_stat->global_auth_tok_list_mutex);
>
> That's odd-looking.  If it was a bug for num_global_auth_toks to be
> zero, and if that mutex protects num_global_auth_toks then as soon
> as the lock gets dropped, another thread can make
> num_global_auth_toks zero, hence the bug is present.  Perhaps?

That was serving as an internal sanity check that should not have made
it into the final patch set in the first place. This patch removes it.
Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 81acbcd6
......@@ -1029,9 +1029,6 @@ int ecryptfs_new_file_context(struct dentry *ecryptfs_dentry)
int rc = 0;
ecryptfs_set_default_crypt_stat_vals(crypt_stat, mount_crypt_stat);
mutex_lock(&mount_crypt_stat->global_auth_tok_list_mutex);
BUG_ON(mount_crypt_stat->num_global_auth_toks == 0);
mutex_unlock(&mount_crypt_stat->global_auth_tok_list_mutex);
crypt_stat->flags |= ECRYPTFS_ENCRYPTED;
crypt_stat->flags |= ECRYPTFS_KEY_VALID;
ecryptfs_copy_mount_wide_flags_to_inode_flags(crypt_stat,
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