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Message-ID: <87mvbpxbh5.fsf@notabene.neil.brown.name>
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2017 12:06:30 +1000
From: NeilBrown <neilb@...e.com>
To: Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@...bit.com>,
Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@...bit.com>
Cc: drbd-dev@...ts.linbit.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] drdb: don't check for failure from mempool_alloc()
mempool_alloc() cannot fail if the gfp flags allow
it to sleep, and GFP_NOIO allows for sleeping.
So drbd_req_new() cannot fail, and drbd_request_prepare() doesn't need
to check if it did.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@...e.com>
---
drivers/block/drbd/drbd_req.c | 11 -----------
1 file changed, 11 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_req.c b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_req.c
index 652114ae1a8a..2e796f79b324 100644
--- a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_req.c
+++ b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_req.c
@@ -52,8 +52,6 @@ static struct drbd_request *drbd_req_new(struct drbd_device *device, struct bio
struct drbd_request *req;
req = mempool_alloc(drbd_request_mempool, GFP_NOIO);
- if (!req)
- return NULL;
memset(req, 0, sizeof(*req));
drbd_req_make_private_bio(req, bio_src);
@@ -1214,15 +1212,6 @@ drbd_request_prepare(struct drbd_device *device, struct bio *bio, unsigned long
/* allocate outside of all locks; */
req = drbd_req_new(device, bio);
- if (!req) {
- dec_ap_bio(device);
- /* only pass the error to the upper layers.
- * if user cannot handle io errors, that's not our business. */
- drbd_err(device, "could not kmalloc() req\n");
- bio->bi_error = -ENOMEM;
- bio_endio(bio);
- return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
- }
req->start_jif = start_jif;
if (!get_ldev(device)) {
--
2.12.2
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