Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 16 Oct 2014 17:45:07 -0400 | From | Matthew Wilcox <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v11 13/21] ext2: Remove ext2_xip_verify_sb() |
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On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 02:18:02PM +0200, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: > On 25-Sep-2014 04:33:30 PM, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > Jan Kara pointed out that calling ext2_xip_verify_sb() in ext2_remount() > > doesn't make sense, since changing the XIP option on remount isn't > > allowed. It also doesn't make sense to re-check whether blocksize is > > supported since it can't change between mounts. > > By "doesn't make sense", do you mean it is never actually used, or that > it is possible for a current user to trigger issues by changing XIP > option on remount ? If it is the case, then this patch should probably > be flagged as a "Fix".
I mean that we're checking for a condition that can't actually happen, so it's safe to just delete the check.
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