It is more clean & readable to check bio when starting to submit it, instead of just before calling ->submit_bio() or blk_mq_submit_bio(). Also it provides us chance to optimize bio submission without checking bio. Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@xxxxxxxxxx> --- block/blk-core.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/block/blk-core.c b/block/blk-core.c index 5a4a59041629..d4a023667ac1 100644 --- a/block/blk-core.c +++ b/block/blk-core.c @@ -797,9 +797,6 @@ static void __submit_bio(struct bio *bio) { struct gendisk *disk = bio->bi_bdev->bd_disk; - if (unlikely(!submit_bio_checks(bio))) - return; - if (!disk->fops->submit_bio) blk_mq_submit_bio(bio); else @@ -893,6 +890,9 @@ static void __submit_bio_noacct_mq(struct bio *bio) */ void submit_bio_noacct(struct bio *bio) { + if (unlikely(!submit_bio_checks(bio))) + return; + /* * We only want one ->submit_bio to be active at a time, else stack * usage with stacked devices could be a problem. Use current->bio_list -- 2.31.1