linux-kernel - [PATCH stable-5.15.y 4/4] btrfs: remove stale comment about the btrfs_show

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Date:   Thu, 16 Dec 2021 21:04:13 +0800
From:   Anand Jain <anand.jain@...cle.com>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org, Anand Jain <anand.jain@...cle.com>,
        David Sterba <dsterba@...e.com>
Subject: [PATCH stable-5.15.y 4/4] btrfs: remove stale comment about the btrfs_show_devname

Commit cdccc03a8a369b59cff5e7ea3292511cfa551120 upstream.

There were few lockdep warnings because btrfs_show_devname() was using
device_list_mutex as recorded in the commits:

  0ccd05285e7f ("btrfs: fix a possible umount deadlock")
  779bf3fefa83 ("btrfs: fix lock dep warning, move scratch dev out of device_list_mutex and uuid_mutex")

And finally, commit 88c14590cdd6 ("btrfs: use RCU in btrfs_show_devname
for device list traversal") removed the device_list_mutex from
btrfs_show_devname for performance reasons.

This patch removes a stale comment about the function
btrfs_show_devname and device_list_mutex.

Signed-off-by: Anand Jain <anand.jain@...cle.com>
Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@...e.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@...e.com>
Signed-off-by: Anand Jain <anand.jain@...cle.com>
---
 fs/btrfs/volumes.c | 7 -------
 1 file changed, 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/btrfs/volumes.c b/fs/btrfs/volumes.c
index b996ea0dc78b..0f549d2681c0 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/volumes.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/volumes.c
@@ -2312,13 +2312,6 @@ void btrfs_destroy_dev_replace_tgtdev(struct btrfs_device *tgtdev)
 
 	mutex_unlock(&fs_devices->device_list_mutex);
 
-	/*
-	 * The update_dev_time() with in btrfs_scratch_superblocks()
-	 * may lead to a call to btrfs_show_devname() which will try
-	 * to hold device_list_mutex. And here this device
-	 * is already out of device list, so we don't have to hold
-	 * the device_list_mutex lock.
-	 */
 	btrfs_scratch_superblocks(tgtdev->fs_info, tgtdev->bdev,
 				  tgtdev->name->str);
 
-- 
2.33.1