This is dead code, any queue reaching this part has mq_ops attached. Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> --- block/blk-merge.c | 3 --- 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/block/blk-merge.c b/block/blk-merge.c index 3561dcce2260..0128284bded4 100644 --- a/block/blk-merge.c +++ b/block/blk-merge.c @@ -704,9 +704,6 @@ static void blk_account_io_merge(struct request *req) static struct request *attempt_merge(struct request_queue *q, struct request *req, struct request *next) { - if (!q->mq_ops) - lockdep_assert_held(q->queue_lock); - if (!rq_mergeable(req) || !rq_mergeable(next)) return NULL; -- 2.17.1