__blkdev_issue_zeroout is a purely kernel internal API and thus can rely on the block layer sector alignment checks. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> --- block/blk-lib.c | 5 ----- 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/block/blk-lib.c b/block/blk-lib.c index f338709aef0c30..7aa7937c34201d 100644 --- a/block/blk-lib.c +++ b/block/blk-lib.c @@ -209,11 +209,6 @@ int __blkdev_issue_zeroout(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t sector, unsigned flags) { int ret; - sector_t bs_mask; - - bs_mask = (bdev_logical_block_size(bdev) >> 9) - 1; - if ((sector | nr_sects) & bs_mask) - return -EINVAL; ret = __blkdev_issue_write_zeroes(bdev, sector, nr_sects, gfp_mask, biop, flags); -- 2.43.0