The only case that nr_pages will be < 0 is that nr_pages overflowed due to nr_events is too big. But it is exclued at ioctx_alloc(). Thus, nr_pages will always > 0. So remove the dead 'if (nr_pages < 0)' code block. Signed-off-by: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/aio.c | 4 ---- 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/aio.c b/fs/aio.c index 55c4c76..7248327 100644 --- a/fs/aio.c +++ b/fs/aio.c @@ -117,10 +117,6 @@ static int aio_setup_ring(struct kioctx *ctx) size = sizeof(struct aio_ring); size += sizeof(struct io_event) * nr_events; nr_pages = (size + PAGE_SIZE-1) >> PAGE_SHIFT; - - if (nr_pages < 0) - return -EINVAL; - nr_events = (PAGE_SIZE * nr_pages - sizeof(struct aio_ring)) / sizeof(struct io_event); info->nr = 0; -- 1.7.7.6 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html