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ipc,msg: drop dst nil validation in copy_msg
d0edd85 ("ipc: convert invalid scenarios to use WARN_ON") relaxed the nil dst parameter check, originally being a full BUG_ON. However, this check seems quite unnecessary when the only purpose is for ceckpoint/restore (MSG_COPY flag): o The copy variable is set initially to nil, apparently as a way of ensuring that prepare_copy is previously called. Which is in fact done, unconditionally at the beginning of do_msgrcv. o There is no concurrency with 'copy' (stack allocated in do_msgrcv). Furthermore, any errors in 'copy' (and thus prepare_copy/copy_msg) should always handled by IS_ERR() family. Therefore remove this check altogether as it can never occur with the current users. Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <[email protected]> Cc: Stanislav Kinsbursky <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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ipc/msgutil.c

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@@ -123,7 +123,6 @@ struct msg_msg *copy_msg(struct msg_msg *src, struct msg_msg *dst)
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size_t len = src->m_ts;
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size_t alen;
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WARN_ON(dst == NULL);
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if (src->m_ts > dst->m_ts)
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return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
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