The patch titled Subject: fs: reiserfs: remove unnecessary check of bh in remove_from_transaction() has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is fs-reiserfs-remove-unnecessary-check-of-bh-in-remove_from_transaction.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/fs-reiserfs-remove-unnecessary-check-of-bh-in-remove_from_transaction.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/fs-reiserfs-remove-unnecessary-check-of-bh-in-remove_from_transaction.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: fs: reiserfs: remove unnecessary check of bh in remove_from_transaction() On lines 3430-3434, bh has been assured to be non-null: cn = get_journal_hash_dev(sb, journal->j_hash_table, blocknr); if (!cn || !cn->bh) { return ret; } bh = cn->bh; Thus, the check of bh on line 3447 is unnecessary and can be removed. Thank Andrew Morton for good advice. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190727084019.11307-1-baijiaju1990@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Hariprasad Kelam <hariprasad.kelam@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Bharath Vedartham <linux.bhar@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/reiserfs/journal.c | 5 ++--- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/fs/reiserfs/journal.c~fs-reiserfs-remove-unnecessary-check-of-bh-in-remove_from_transaction +++ a/fs/reiserfs/journal.c @@ -3444,9 +3444,8 @@ static int remove_from_transaction(struc if (cn == journal->j_last) { journal->j_last = cn->prev; } - if (bh) - remove_journal_hash(sb, journal->j_hash_table, NULL, - bh->b_blocknr, 0); + remove_journal_hash(sb, journal->j_hash_table, NULL, + bh->b_blocknr, 0); clear_buffer_journaled(bh); /* don't log this one */ if (!already_cleaned) { _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from baijiaju1990@xxxxxxxxx are fs-reiserfs-remove-unnecessary-check-of-bh-in-remove_from_transaction.patch