Re: [PATCH] generic arch_futex_atomic_op_inuser() cleanup

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Mon, 15 Jul 2019, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 12:29 PM Vasily Averin <vvs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Looks like this code is dead and therefore looks strange.
> > I've found it during manual code review and decided to send patch
> > to pay your attention to this problem.
> > Probably it's better to remove this code at all?
> >
> > On 7/15/19 1:27 PM, Vasily Averin wrote:
> > > Access to 'op' variable does not require pagefault_disable(),
> > > 'ret' variable should be initialized before using,
> > > 'oldval' variable can be replaced by constant.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin <vvs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> I'm not following the reasoning for any of the changes here. Why do you
> think we don't need the pagefault_disable() around get_user()/put_user(),
> and which part of the funtion is dead code?

All of it. If you change the function to

{
	return -ENOSYS;
}

then it is equivalent (except for the pointless pagefault_disable/enable()
pair which protects absolutely nothing).

Thanks,

	tglx