linux-kernel - [PATCH 03/27] block: drbd: remove impossible failure handling

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Message-Id: <1459857443-20611-4-git-send-email-tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Date:	Tue,  5 Apr 2016 19:56:48 +0800
From:	Ming Lei <tom.leiming@...il.com>
To:	Jens Axboe <axboe@...com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	linux-block@...r.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Boaz Harrosh <boaz@...xistor.com>,
	Ming Lei <tom.leiming@...il.com>,
	Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@...bit.com>,
	Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@...bit.com>,
	drbd-dev@...ts.linbit.com (open list:DRBD DRIVER)
Subject: [PATCH 03/27] block: drbd: remove impossible failure handling

For a non-cloned bio, bio_add_page() only returns failure when
the io vec table is full, but in that case, bio->bi_vcnt can't
be zero at all.

So remove the impossible failure handling.

Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@...il.com>
---
 drivers/block/drbd/drbd_receiver.c | 14 +-------------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_receiver.c b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_receiver.c
index 050aaa1..1b0ed15 100644
--- a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_receiver.c
+++ b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_receiver.c
@@ -1465,20 +1465,8 @@ next_bio:
 
 	page_chain_for_each(page) {
 		unsigned len = min_t(unsigned, data_size, PAGE_SIZE);
-		if (!bio_add_page(bio, page, len, 0)) {
-			/* A single page must always be possible!
-			 * But in case it fails anyways,
-			 * we deal with it, and complain (below). */
-			if (bio->bi_vcnt == 0) {
-				drbd_err(device,
-					"bio_add_page failed for len=%u, "
-					"bi_vcnt=0 (bi_sector=%llu)\n",
-					len, (uint64_t)bio->bi_iter.bi_sector);
-				err = -ENOSPC;
-				goto fail;
-			}
+		if (!bio_add_page(bio, page, len, 0))
 			goto next_bio;
-		}
 		data_size -= len;
 		sector += len >> 9;
 		--nr_pages;
-- 
1.9.1