If read_mapping_page() encounters an error, it returns an errno, not a page with PageError set, so this is dead code. Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ntfs/file.c | 5 ----- 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ntfs/file.c b/fs/ntfs/file.c index e1392a9b8ceb..37224ebdcd10 100644 --- a/fs/ntfs/file.c +++ b/fs/ntfs/file.c @@ -219,11 +219,6 @@ static int ntfs_attr_extend_initialized(ntfs_inode *ni, const s64 new_init_size) err = PTR_ERR(page); goto init_err_out; } - if (unlikely(PageError(page))) { - put_page(page); - err = -EIO; - goto init_err_out; - } /* * Update the initialized size in the ntfs inode. This is * enough to make ntfs_writepage() work. -- 2.34.1