BLKFLSBUF is entirely contained in the block core, and there is no good reason to give the driver a hook into processing it. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> --- block/ioctl.c | 7 ------- 1 file changed, 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/block/ioctl.c b/block/ioctl.c index 3fbc382eb926d4..c6d8863f040945 100644 --- a/block/ioctl.c +++ b/block/ioctl.c @@ -369,15 +369,8 @@ static inline int is_unrecognized_ioctl(int ret) static int blkdev_flushbuf(struct block_device *bdev, fmode_t mode, unsigned cmd, unsigned long arg) { - int ret; - if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) return -EACCES; - - ret = __blkdev_driver_ioctl(bdev, mode, cmd, arg); - if (!is_unrecognized_ioctl(ret)) - return ret; - fsync_bdev(bdev); invalidate_bdev(bdev); return 0; -- 2.28.0