submit_bh always returns 0. This patch drops the useless return value of
submit_bh from __sync_dirty_buffer(). Once all of submit_bh callers are
cleaned up, we can make it's return type as void.
Signed-off-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@xxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/buffer.c | 10 ++++------
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c
index 55e762a58eb6..c21b72c06eb0 100644
--- a/fs/buffer.c
+++ b/fs/buffer.c
@@ -2801,8 +2801,6 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(write_dirty_buffer);
*/
int __sync_dirty_buffer(struct buffer_head *bh, blk_opf_t op_flags)
{
- int ret = 0;
-
WARN_ON(atomic_read(&bh->b_count) < 1);
lock_buffer(bh);
if (test_clear_buffer_dirty(bh)) {
@@ -2817,14 +2815,14 @@ int __sync_dirty_buffer(struct buffer_head *bh, blk_opf_t op_flags)
get_bh(bh);
bh->b_end_io = end_buffer_write_sync;
- ret = submit_bh(REQ_OP_WRITE | op_flags, bh);
+ submit_bh(REQ_OP_WRITE | op_flags, bh);
wait_on_buffer(bh);
- if (!ret && !buffer_uptodate(bh))
- ret = -EIO;
+ if (!buffer_uptodate(bh))
+ return -EIO;
} else {
unlock_buffer(bh);
}
- return ret;
+ return 0;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(__sync_dirty_buffer);
--
2.35.3
