From 68b47ca59d3cd76a825984b49c283cf5b39b220a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tejun Heo Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2014 08:03:56 +0900 Subject: 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 Cc: Chris Mason Cc: Dave Chinner Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe Signed-off-by: Pranav Vashi --- include/linux/blkdev.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'include/linux') 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 */ } /* -- cgit v1.2.3