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authorTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>2014-09-08 08:03:56 +0900
committerJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>2014-09-08 10:00:35 -0600
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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>
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-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 518b465..e267bf0 100644
--- a/include/linux/blkdev.h
+++ b/include/linux/blkdev.h
@@ -865,7 +865,7 @@ 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 */
}
/*
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