As smatch, which is a lot smarter than me noticed. So remove the checks for it, and condense these checks a bit including the comments stating the obvious. Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> --- block/blk-merge.c | 30 ++++++++---------------------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-) diff --git a/block/blk-merge.c b/block/blk-merge.c index 64860cbd5e27..e01383c6e534 100644 --- a/block/blk-merge.c +++ b/block/blk-merge.c @@ -864,14 +864,10 @@ static struct request *attempt_merge(struct request_queue *q, if (req_op(req) != req_op(next)) return NULL; - if (req->bio && next->bio) { - /* Don't merge requests with different write hints. */ - if (req->bio->bi_write_hint != next->bio->bi_write_hint) - return NULL; - if (req->bio->bi_ioprio != next->bio->bi_ioprio) - return NULL; - } - + if (req->bio->bi_write_hint != next->bio->bi_write_hint) + return NULL; + if (req->bio->bi_ioprio != next->bio->bi_ioprio) + return NULL; if (!blk_atomic_write_mergeable_rqs(req, next)) return NULL; @@ -983,26 +979,16 @@ bool blk_rq_merge_ok(struct request *rq, struct bio *bio) if (req_op(rq) != bio_op(bio)) return false; - /* don't merge across cgroup boundaries */ if (!blk_cgroup_mergeable(rq, bio)) return false; - - /* only merge integrity protected bio into ditto rq */ if (blk_integrity_merge_bio(rq->q, rq, bio) == false) return false; - - /* Only merge if the crypt contexts are compatible */ if (!bio_crypt_rq_ctx_compatible(rq, bio)) return false; - - if (rq->bio) { - /* Don't merge requests with different write hints. */ - if (rq->bio->bi_write_hint != bio->bi_write_hint) - return false; - if (rq->bio->bi_ioprio != bio->bi_ioprio) - return false; - } - + if (rq->bio->bi_write_hint != bio->bi_write_hint) + return false; + if (rq->bio->bi_ioprio != bio->bi_ioprio) + return false; if (blk_atomic_write_mergeable_rq_bio(rq, bio) == false) return false; -- 2.45.2