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poll_wait: kill the obsolete wait_address check
authorOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Tue, 7 Jan 2025 16:27:24 +0000 (17:27 +0100)
committerChristian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Fri, 10 Jan 2025 10:58:59 +0000 (11:58 +0100)
commit10b02a2cfec2f106db4897ad87732db56d71e6fd
tree06b136a7fb28bb8f591820ac1b453993ea24fbbb
parentcacd9ae4bf801ff4125d8961bb9a3ba955e51680
poll_wait: kill the obsolete wait_address check

This check is historical and no longer needed, wait_address is never NULL.
These days we rely on the poll_table->_qproc check. NULL if select/poll
is not going to sleep, or it already has a data to report, or all waiters
have already been registered after the 1st iteration.

However, poll_table *p can be NULL, see p9_fd_poll() for example, so we
can't remove the "p != NULL" check.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250106180325.GF7233@redhat.com/
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250107162724.GA18926@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
include/linux/poll.h