From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> An earlier commit "io_uring: remove @nxt from handlers" removed the setting of pointer nxt and now it is always null, hence the non-null check and call to io_wq_assign_next is redundant and can be removed. Addresses-Coverity: ("'Constant' variable guard") Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/io_uring.c | 3 --- 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/io_uring.c b/fs/io_uring.c index 14efcf0a3070..b594fa0bd210 100644 --- a/fs/io_uring.c +++ b/fs/io_uring.c @@ -3509,14 +3509,11 @@ static void __io_sync_file_range(struct io_kiocb *req) static void io_sync_file_range_finish(struct io_wq_work **workptr) { struct io_kiocb *req = container_of(*workptr, struct io_kiocb, work); - struct io_kiocb *nxt = NULL; if (io_req_cancelled(req)) return; __io_sync_file_range(req); io_put_req(req); /* put submission ref */ - if (nxt) - io_wq_assign_next(workptr, nxt); } static int io_sync_file_range(struct io_kiocb *req, bool force_nonblock) -- 2.25.1