Re: [PATCH V2 linux-next] nfs: kmap can't fail

[Trond Myklebust]

On Wed, 2017-04-26 at 20:45 +0200, Fabian Frederick wrote:
> Remove NULL test on kmap()
> 
> Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> V2: Remove ptr and return kmap(page) directly
> (Suggested by Anna Schumaker)
> 
> Âfs/nfs/dir.c | 6 +-----
> Â1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/nfs/dir.c b/fs/nfs/dir.c
> index 3a188cb..12ed806b 100644
> --- a/fs/nfs/dir.c
> +++ b/fs/nfs/dir.c
> @@ -175,13 +175,9 @@ typedef struct {
> Âstatic
> Âstruct nfs_cache_array *nfs_readdir_get_array(struct page *page)
> Â{
> -	void *ptr;
> Â	if (page == NULL)
> Â		return ERR_PTR(-EIO);
> -	ptr = kmap(page);
> -	if (ptr == NULL)
> -		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
> -	return ptr;
> +	return kmap(page);
> Â}
> Â
> Âstatic

There seems little value in having a wrapper to kmap... Can we perhaps
instead just get rid of both nfs_readdir_get_array and
nfs_readdir_release_array?

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Trond Myklebust
Linux NFS client maintainer, PrimaryData
trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx