block, bdi: an active gendisk always has a request_queue associated with it

bdev_get_queue() returns the request_queue associated with the
specified block_device.  blk_get_backing_dev_info() makes use of
bdev_get_queue() to determine the associated bdi given a block_device.

All the callers of bdev_get_queue() including
blk_get_backing_dev_info() assume that bdev_get_queue() may return
NULL and implement NULL handling; however, bdev_get_queue() requires
the passed in block_device is opened and attached to its gendisk.
Because an active gendisk always has a valid request_queue associated
with it, bdev_get_queue() can never return NULL and neither can
blk_get_backing_dev_info().

Make it clear that neither of the two functions can return NULL and
remove NULL handling from all the callers.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/block/blk-core.c b/block/blk-core.c
index 93603e6ff479..817446175489 100644
--- a/block/blk-core.c
+++ b/block/blk-core.c
@@ -83,18 +83,14 @@ void blk_queue_congestion_threshold(struct request_queue *q)
  * @bdev:	device
  *
  * Locates the passed device's request queue and returns the address of its
- * backing_dev_info
- *
- * Will return NULL if the request queue cannot be located.
+ * backing_dev_info.  This function can only be called if @bdev is opened
+ * and the return value is never NULL.
  */
 struct backing_dev_info *blk_get_backing_dev_info(struct block_device *bdev)
 {
-	struct backing_dev_info *ret = NULL;
 	struct request_queue *q = bdev_get_queue(bdev);
 
-	if (q)
-		ret = &q->backing_dev_info;
-	return ret;
+	return &q->backing_dev_info;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(blk_get_backing_dev_info);