From: Alexey Dobriyan Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2018 22:27:17 +0000 (-0700) Subject: proc: skip branch in /proc/*/* lookup X-Git-Url: http://git.cdn.openwrt.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=26b95137d673d8d6a9a124d433d968e18298f4ed;p=openwrt%2Fstaging%2Fblogic.git proc: skip branch in /proc/*/* lookup Code is structured like this: for ( ... p < last; p++) { if (memcmp == 0) break; } if (p >= last) ERROR OK gcc doesn't see that if if lookup succeeds than post loop branch will never be taken and skip it. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: proc_pident_instantiate() no longer takes an inode*] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180423213954.GD9043@avx2 Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton Cc: Al Viro Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/fs/proc/base.c b/fs/proc/base.c index 80aa42506b8b..b6572944efc3 100644 --- a/fs/proc/base.c +++ b/fs/proc/base.c @@ -2439,14 +2439,11 @@ static struct dentry *proc_pident_lookup(struct inode *dir, for (p = ents; p < last; p++) { if (p->len != dentry->d_name.len) continue; - if (!memcmp(dentry->d_name.name, p->name, p->len)) + if (!memcmp(dentry->d_name.name, p->name, p->len)) { + res = proc_pident_instantiate(dentry, task, p); break; + } } - if (p >= last) - goto out; - - res = proc_pident_instantiate(dentry, task, p); -out: put_task_struct(task); out_no_task: return res;