From: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 5 May 2026 18:55:29 +0000 (+0300)
Subject: sync_file_range: delete dead S_ISLNK code
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb/index.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=50d377ef12d9680ff8fd0923afc7edaf63995511;p=thirdparty%2Fkernel%2Flinux.git

sync_file_range: delete dead S_ISLNK code

Symlinks can't appear as opened file.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/295235c7-7f68-4554-bb6f-85398beca350@p183
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
---

diff --git a/fs/sync.c b/fs/sync.c
index 942a60cfedfbf..4a84dd837b863 100644
--- a/fs/sync.c
+++ b/fs/sync.c
@@ -266,8 +266,7 @@ int sync_file_range(struct file *file, loff_t offset, loff_t nbytes,
 
 	i_mode = file_inode(file)->i_mode;
 	ret = -ESPIPE;
-	if (!S_ISREG(i_mode) && !S_ISBLK(i_mode) && !S_ISDIR(i_mode) &&
-			!S_ISLNK(i_mode))
+	if (!S_ISREG(i_mode) && !S_ISBLK(i_mode) && !S_ISDIR(i_mode))
 		goto out;
 
 	mapping = file->f_mapping;