linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ext4: remove the null check of bio

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Date:   Wed, 21 Oct 2020 12:25:03 +0200
From:   Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
To:     Xianting Tian <tian.xianting@....com>
Cc:     tytso@....edu, adilger.kernel@...ger.ca, jack@...e.cz,
        linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: remove the null check of bio_vec page

On Tue 20-10-20 16:22:01, Xianting Tian wrote:
> bv_page can't be NULL in a valid bio_vec, so we can remove the NULL check,
> as we did in other places when calling bio_for_each_segment_all() to go
> through all bio_vec of a bio.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Xianting Tian <tian.xianting@....com>

Thanks for the patch. It looks good to me. You can add:

Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>

								Honza

> ---
>  fs/ext4/page-io.c | 3 ---
>  1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/ext4/page-io.c b/fs/ext4/page-io.c
> index defd2e10d..cb135a944 100644
> --- a/fs/ext4/page-io.c
> +++ b/fs/ext4/page-io.c
> @@ -111,9 +111,6 @@ static void ext4_finish_bio(struct bio *bio)
>  		unsigned under_io = 0;
>  		unsigned long flags;
>  
> -		if (!page)
> -			continue;
> -
>  		if (fscrypt_is_bounce_page(page)) {
>  			bounce_page = page;
>  			page = fscrypt_pagecache_page(bounce_page);
> -- 
> 2.17.1
> 
-- 
Jan Kara <jack@...e.com>
SUSE Labs, CR