On 07/04/2020 01:54, Colin King wrote: > 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); Works, but it should be io_steal_work() instead -- Pavel Begunkov