brd_insert_page returns a pointer to struct page, however the pointer is never used (it is only compared against NULL), so to clean-up the code, we make it return bool. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/block/brd.c | 16 ++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6/drivers/block/brd.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/block/brd.c +++ linux-2.6/drivers/block/brd.c @@ -78,11 +78,11 @@ static struct page *brd_lookup_page(stru } /* - * Look up and return a brd's page for a given sector. - * If one does not exist, allocate an empty page, and insert that. Then - * return it. + * If the page exists, return true. + * If it does not exist, allocate an empty page, and insert that. Return true + * if the allocation was successful. */ -static struct page *brd_insert_page(struct brd_device *brd, sector_t sector) +static bool brd_insert_page(struct brd_device *brd, sector_t sector) { pgoff_t idx; struct page *page; @@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ static struct page *brd_insert_page(stru page = brd_lookup_page(brd, sector); if (page) - return page; + return true; /* * Must use NOIO because we don't want to recurse back into the @@ -99,11 +99,11 @@ static struct page *brd_insert_page(stru gfp_flags = GFP_NOIO | __GFP_ZERO | __GFP_HIGHMEM; page = alloc_page(gfp_flags); if (!page) - return NULL; + return false; if (radix_tree_preload(GFP_NOIO)) { __free_page(page); - return NULL; + return false; } spin_lock(&brd->brd_lock); @@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ static struct page *brd_insert_page(stru radix_tree_preload_end(); - return page; + return true; } /*