Based on the comment present in the bdev_get_queue() bdev->bd_disk->queue can never be NULL. Remove the NULL check for the local variabel q that is set from bdev_get_queue() in the function __blkdev_issue_write_zeroes() and the respective NULL check. Signed-off-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <kch@xxxxxxxxxx> --- block/blk-lib.c | 4 ---- 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/block/blk-lib.c b/block/blk-lib.c index 473888d667a1..e7a9ed8cc5df 100644 --- a/block/blk-lib.c +++ b/block/blk-lib.c @@ -244,10 +244,6 @@ static int __blkdev_issue_write_zeroes(struct block_device *bdev, { struct bio *bio = *biop; unsigned int max_write_zeroes_sectors; - struct request_queue *q = bdev_get_queue(bdev); - - if (!q) - return -ENXIO; if (bdev_read_only(bdev)) return -EPERM; -- 2.29.0