tree 603da19bd5834a44723bd39693373ec56ca1e75d
parent 08397acdd0f02d566154c9ac7f625ae8e77133b3
author Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> 1427817299 -0400
committer Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> 1428805675 -0400

aio_run_iocb(): kill dead check

We check if ->ki_pos is positive.  However, by that point we have
already done rw_verify_area(), which would have rejected such
unless the file had been one of /dev/mem, /dev/kmem and /proc/kcore.
All of which do not have vectored rw methods, so we would've bailed
out even earlier.

This check had been introduced before rw_verify_area() had been added there
- in fact, it was a subset of checks done on sync paths by rw_verify_area()
(back then the /dev/mem exception didn't exist at all).  The rest of checks
(mandatory locking, etc.) hadn't been added until later.  Unfortunately,
by the time the call of rw_verify_area() got added, the /dev/mem exception
had already appeared, so it wasn't obvious that the older explicit check
downstream had become dead code.  It *is* a dead code, though, since the few
files for which the exception applies do not have ->aio_{read,write}() or
->{read,write}_iter() and for them we won't reach that check anyway.

What's more, even if we ever introduce vectored methods for /dev/mem
and friends, they'll have to cope with negative positions anyway, since
readv(2) and writev(2) are using the same checks as read(2) and write(2) -
i.e. rw_verify_area().

Let's bury it.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>