[PATCH 02/10] block: don't call into the driver for BLKFLSBUF

Christoph Hellwig hch at lst.de
Tue Nov 3 05:00:10 EST 2020


BLKFLSBUF is entirely contained in the block core, and there is no
good reason to give the driver a hook into processing it.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>
---
 block/ioctl.c | 7 -------
 1 file changed, 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/block/ioctl.c b/block/ioctl.c
index 3fbc382eb926d4..c6d8863f040945 100644
--- a/block/ioctl.c
+++ b/block/ioctl.c
@@ -369,15 +369,8 @@ static inline int is_unrecognized_ioctl(int ret)
 static int blkdev_flushbuf(struct block_device *bdev, fmode_t mode,
 		unsigned cmd, unsigned long arg)
 {
-	int ret;
-
 	if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
 		return -EACCES;
-
-	ret = __blkdev_driver_ioctl(bdev, mode, cmd, arg);
-	if (!is_unrecognized_ioctl(ret))
-		return ret;
-
 	fsync_bdev(bdev);
 	invalidate_bdev(bdev);
 	return 0;
-- 
2.28.0




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