[PATCH] remove file.f_maxcount

struct file cleanup: f_maxcount has an unique value (INT_MAX).  Just use
the hard-wired value.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

3 files changed, 1 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/fs/file_table.c b/fs/file_table.c
index 1d3de78e6bc9..43e9e1737de2 100644
--- a/fs/file_table.c
+++ b/fs/file_table.c
@@ -89,7 +89,6 @@ struct file *get_empty_filp(void)
         rwlock_init(&f->f_owner.lock);
         /* f->f_version: 0 */
         INIT_LIST_HEAD(&f->f_list);
-        f->f_maxcount = INT_MAX;
         return f;
 
 over:
diff --git a/fs/read_write.c b/fs/read_write.c
index 563abd09b5c8..b60324aaa2b6 100644
--- a/fs/read_write.c
+++ b/fs/read_write.c
@@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ int rw_verify_area(int read_write, struct file *file, loff_t *ppos, size_t count
         struct inode *inode;
         loff_t pos;
 
-        if (unlikely(count > file->f_maxcount))
+        if (unlikely(count > INT_MAX))
                 goto Einval;
         pos = *ppos;
         if (unlikely((pos < 0) || (loff_t) (pos + count) < 0))
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index 67e6732d4fdc..2036747c7d1f 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -594,7 +594,6 @@ struct file {
         unsigned int            f_uid, f_gid;
         struct file_ra_state    f_ra;
 
-        size_t                  f_maxcount;
         unsigned long           f_version;
         void                    *f_security;