We never rescan namespaces after marking them dead, so this check is dead now. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> --- drivers/nvme/host/core.c | 4 ---- 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/core.c b/drivers/nvme/host/core.c index 2ec838e608509..99eabbe7fac98 100644 --- a/drivers/nvme/host/core.c +++ b/drivers/nvme/host/core.c @@ -4333,10 +4333,6 @@ static void nvme_validate_ns(struct nvme_ns *ns, struct nvme_ns_info *info) { int ret = NVME_SC_INVALID_NS | NVME_SC_DNR; - if (test_bit(NVME_NS_DEAD, &ns->flags)) - goto out; - - ret = NVME_SC_INVALID_NS | NVME_SC_DNR; if (!nvme_ns_ids_equal(&ns->head->ids, &info->ids)) { dev_err(ns->ctrl->device, "identifiers changed for nsid %d\n", ns->head->ns_id); -- 2.30.2