linux-kernel - [PATCH] ext4: bio

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Date:   Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:26:18 +0800
From:   Gao Xiang <gaoxiang25@...wei.com>
To:     Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>,
        Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@...ger.ca>
CC:     <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Gao Xiang <gaoxiang25@...wei.com>
Subject: [PATCH] ext4: bio_alloc never fails

Similar to [1] [2], it seems a trivial cleanup since
bio_alloc can handle memory allocation as mentioned in
fs/direct-io.c (also see fs/block_dev.c, fs/buffer.c, ..)

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191030035518.65477-1-gaoxiang25@huawei.com
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190830162812.GA10694@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Gao Xiang <gaoxiang25@...wei.com>
---
 fs/ext4/page-io.c  | 11 +++--------
 fs/ext4/readpage.c |  2 --
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/page-io.c b/fs/ext4/page-io.c
index 12ceadef32c5..f1f7b6601780 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/page-io.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/page-io.c
@@ -358,14 +358,12 @@ void ext4_io_submit_init(struct ext4_io_submit *io,
 	io->io_end = NULL;
 }
 
-static int io_submit_init_bio(struct ext4_io_submit *io,
-			      struct buffer_head *bh)
+static void io_submit_init_bio(struct ext4_io_submit *io,
+			       struct buffer_head *bh)
 {
 	struct bio *bio;
 
 	bio = bio_alloc(GFP_NOIO, BIO_MAX_PAGES);
-	if (!bio)
-		return -ENOMEM;
 	bio->bi_iter.bi_sector = bh->b_blocknr * (bh->b_size >> 9);
 	bio_set_dev(bio, bh->b_bdev);
 	bio->bi_end_io = ext4_end_bio;
@@ -373,7 +371,6 @@ static int io_submit_init_bio(struct ext4_io_submit *io,
 	io->io_bio = bio;
 	io->io_next_block = bh->b_blocknr;
 	wbc_init_bio(io->io_wbc, bio);
-	return 0;
 }
 
 static int io_submit_add_bh(struct ext4_io_submit *io,
@@ -388,9 +385,7 @@ static int io_submit_add_bh(struct ext4_io_submit *io,
 		ext4_io_submit(io);
 	}
 	if (io->io_bio == NULL) {
-		ret = io_submit_init_bio(io, bh);
-		if (ret)
-			return ret;
+		io_submit_init_bio(io, bh);
 		io->io_bio->bi_write_hint = inode->i_write_hint;
 	}
 	ret = bio_add_page(io->io_bio, page, bh->b_size, bh_offset(bh));
diff --git a/fs/ext4/readpage.c b/fs/ext4/readpage.c
index a30b203fa461..bfeb77b93f48 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/readpage.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/readpage.c
@@ -362,8 +362,6 @@ int ext4_mpage_readpages(struct address_space *mapping,
 
 			bio = bio_alloc(GFP_KERNEL,
 				min_t(int, nr_pages, BIO_MAX_PAGES));
-			if (!bio)
-				goto set_error_page;
 			ctx = get_bio_post_read_ctx(inode, bio, page->index);
 			if (IS_ERR(ctx)) {
 				bio_put(bio);
-- 
2.17.1