submit_bh always returns 0. This patch cleans up 2 of it's caller in jbd2 to drop submit_bh's useless return value. Once all submit_bh callers are cleaned up, we can make it's return type as void. Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Ritesh Harjani <ritesh.list@xxxxxxxxx> --- fs/jbd2/commit.c | 11 +++++------ fs/jbd2/journal.c | 6 ++---- 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/jbd2/commit.c b/fs/jbd2/commit.c index eb315e81f1a6..688fd960d01f 100644 --- a/fs/jbd2/commit.c +++ b/fs/jbd2/commit.c @@ -122,8 +122,8 @@ static int journal_submit_commit_record(journal_t *journal, { struct commit_header *tmp; struct buffer_head *bh; - int ret; struct timespec64 now; + int write_flags = REQ_SYNC; *cbh = NULL; @@ -155,13 +155,12 @@ static int journal_submit_commit_record(journal_t *journal, if (journal->j_flags & JBD2_BARRIER && !jbd2_has_feature_async_commit(journal)) - ret = submit_bh(REQ_OP_WRITE, - REQ_SYNC | REQ_PREFLUSH | REQ_FUA, bh); - else - ret = submit_bh(REQ_OP_WRITE, REQ_SYNC, bh); + write_flags |= REQ_PREFLUSH | REQ_FUA; + + submit_bh(REQ_OP_WRITE, write_flags, bh); *cbh = bh; - return ret; + return 0; } /* diff --git a/fs/jbd2/journal.c b/fs/jbd2/journal.c index c0cbeeaec2d1..81a282e676bc 100644 --- a/fs/jbd2/journal.c +++ b/fs/jbd2/journal.c @@ -1606,7 +1606,7 @@ static int jbd2_write_superblock(journal_t *journal, int write_flags) { struct buffer_head *bh = journal->j_sb_buffer; journal_superblock_t *sb = journal->j_superblock; - int ret; + int ret = 0; /* Buffer got discarded which means block device got invalidated */ if (!buffer_mapped(bh)) { @@ -1636,14 +1636,12 @@ static int jbd2_write_superblock(journal_t *journal, int write_flags) sb->s_checksum = jbd2_superblock_csum(journal, sb); get_bh(bh); bh->b_end_io = end_buffer_write_sync; - ret = submit_bh(REQ_OP_WRITE, write_flags, bh); + submit_bh(REQ_OP_WRITE, write_flags, bh); wait_on_buffer(bh); if (buffer_write_io_error(bh)) { clear_buffer_write_io_error(bh); set_buffer_uptodate(bh); ret = -EIO; - } - if (ret) { printk(KERN_ERR "JBD2: Error %d detected when updating " "journal superblock for %s.\n", ret, journal->j_devname); -- 2.35.3