On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 08:32:25AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > These days we don't treat sync iocbs special in the aio completion code as > they never use it. Remove the old comment, and move the BUG_ON for a sync > iocb to the top of the function. > > Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> > Acked-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@xxxxxxxxxx> > Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > fs/aio.c | 11 ++--------- > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/fs/aio.c b/fs/aio.c > index 03d59593912d..41fc8ce6bc7f 100644 > --- a/fs/aio.c > +++ b/fs/aio.c > @@ -1088,6 +1088,8 @@ static void aio_complete(struct kiocb *kiocb, long res, long res2) > unsigned tail, pos, head; > unsigned long flags; > > + BUG_ON(is_sync_kiocb(kiocb)); Is this BUG_ON even needed anymore? Does it ever trip in any "regular" use, or is it only there for when a developer does something dumb? If "dumb", then we should keep it, otherwise we might be able to just drop it. Either way, this patch is fine: Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>