[060/105] UBIFS: do not read flash unnecessarily

From: Greg KH
Date: Tue Apr 12 2011 - 10:48:56 EST


2.6.38-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

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From: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@xxxxxxxxx>

commit 8b229c76765816796eec7ccd428f03bd8de8b525 upstream.

This fix makes the 'dbg_check_old_index()' function return
immediately if debugging is disabled, instead of executing
incorrect 'goto out' which causes UBIFS to:

1. Allocate memory
2. Read the flash

On every commit. OK, we do not commit that often, but it is
still silly to do unneeded I/O anyway.

Credits to coverity for spotting this silly issue.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>

---
fs/ubifs/commit.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/fs/ubifs/commit.c
+++ b/fs/ubifs/commit.c
@@ -521,7 +521,7 @@ int dbg_check_old_index(struct ubifs_inf
size_t sz;

if (!(ubifs_chk_flags & UBIFS_CHK_OLD_IDX))
- goto out;
+ return 0;

INIT_LIST_HEAD(&list);



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