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authorTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>2014-09-08 08:03:56 +0900
committerMoyster <oysterized@gmail.com>2016-09-13 13:35:23 +0200
commit68b47ca59d3cd76a825984b49c283cf5b39b220a (patch)
tree133e40f26aeadd5ca0c541a7abceeb39a96cb7c6 /include
parent2679d033a9192f766a82e75b2b3b4226a9e90484 (diff)
block, bdi: an active gendisk always has a request_queue associated with it
bdev_get_queue() returns the request_queue associated with the specified block_device. blk_get_backing_dev_info() makes use of bdev_get_queue() to determine the associated bdi given a block_device. All the callers of bdev_get_queue() including blk_get_backing_dev_info() assume that bdev_get_queue() may return NULL and implement NULL handling; however, bdev_get_queue() requires the passed in block_device is opened and attached to its gendisk. Because an active gendisk always has a valid request_queue associated with it, bdev_get_queue() can never return NULL and neither can blk_get_backing_dev_info(). Make it clear that neither of the two functions can return NULL and remove NULL handling from all the callers. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Pranav Vashi <neobuddy89@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/blkdev.h2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/blkdev.h b/include/linux/blkdev.h
index 19d64d2ad..93a08def8 100644
--- a/include/linux/blkdev.h
+++ b/include/linux/blkdev.h
@@ -890,7 +890,7 @@ extern void blk_execute_rq_nowait(struct request_queue *, struct gendisk *,
static inline struct request_queue *bdev_get_queue(struct block_device *bdev)
{
- return bdev->bd_disk->queue;
+ return bdev->bd_disk->queue; /* this is never NULL */
}
/*