From: Dipankar Sarma Change the fds[fd] != NULL check in fd_install() to be a BUG_ON. Signed-off-by: Dipankar Sarma Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- fs/open.c | 3 +-- 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN fs/open.c~files-files-struct-with-rcu-change-fd_install-assertion fs/open.c --- 25/fs/open.c~files-files-struct-with-rcu-change-fd_install-assertion 2005-06-24 22:51:51.000000000 -0700 +++ 25-akpm/fs/open.c 2005-06-24 22:51:51.000000000 -0700 @@ -931,8 +931,7 @@ void fastcall fd_install(unsigned int fd struct fdtable *fdt; spin_lock(&files->file_lock); fdt = files_fdtable(files); - if (unlikely(fdt->fd[fd] != NULL)) - BUG(); + BUG_ON(fdt->fd[fd] != NULL); rcu_assign_pointer(fdt->fd[fd], file); spin_unlock(&files->file_lock); } _