We don't really need the struct block_device to initialize a bio. So switch from using bio_set_dev to manually setting up bi_disk (bi_partno will always be zero and has been cleared by bio_init already). Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Acked-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/md/dm.c | 12 +++--------- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/md/dm.c b/drivers/md/dm.c index 50541d336c719b..ab0a8335f098d9 100644 --- a/drivers/md/dm.c +++ b/drivers/md/dm.c @@ -1422,18 +1422,12 @@ static int __send_empty_flush(struct clone_info *ci) */ bio_init(&flush_bio, NULL, 0); flush_bio.bi_opf = REQ_OP_WRITE | REQ_PREFLUSH | REQ_SYNC; + flush_bio.bi_disk = ci->io->md->disk; + bio_associate_blkg(&flush_bio); + ci->bio = &flush_bio; ci->sector_count = 0; - /* - * Empty flush uses a statically initialized bio, as the base for - * cloning. However, blkg association requires that a bdev is - * associated with a gendisk, which doesn't happen until the bdev is - * opened. So, blkg association is done at issue time of the flush - * rather than when the device is created in alloc_dev(). - */ - bio_set_dev(ci->bio, ci->io->md->bdev); - BUG_ON(bio_has_data(ci->bio)); while ((ti = dm_table_get_target(ci->map, target_nr++))) __send_duplicate_bios(ci, ti, ti->num_flush_bios, NULL); -- 2.29.2