Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Mon, 11 Dec 2006, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
>> Prevent oops when an app tries to create a pipe while pipefs
>> is not mounted.
>
> Have you actually seen this, or is this just from looking at code?
>
> Quite frankly, if "pipe_mnt" is ever NULL, we're dead for lots of other
> reasons.
>
> In fact, pipe_mnt can't be NULL. The way it is initialized is:
>
> pipe_mnt = kern_mount(&pipe_fs_type);
>
> and pipe_mnt doesn't even return NULL - it returns an error pointer, so if
> "kern_mount()" were to have failed, pipe_mnt will be some random invalid
> pointer that could only be tested with IS_ERR(), not by comparing against
> NULL.
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=116510390600001&r=1&w=2
/mjt
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