ext4: remove ext4_handle_release_buffer()

ext4_handle_release_buffer() was intended to remove journal
write access from a buffer, but it doesn't actually do anything
at all other than add a BUFFER_TRACE point, but it's not reliably
used for that either.  Remove all the associated dead code.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Carlos Maiolino <cmaiolino@redhat.com>

3 files changed, 3 insertions, 22 deletions

diff --git a/fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.h b/fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.h
index 56d258c18303..7177f9b21cb2 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.h
+++ b/fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.h
@@ -254,13 +254,6 @@ static inline void ext4_handle_sync(handle_t *handle)
 		handle->h_sync = 1;
 }
 
-static inline void ext4_handle_release_buffer(handle_t *handle,
-						struct buffer_head *bh)
-{
-	if (ext4_handle_valid(handle))
-		jbd2_journal_release_buffer(handle, bh);
-}
-
 static inline int ext4_handle_is_aborted(handle_t *handle)
 {
 	if (ext4_handle_valid(handle))
diff --git a/fs/ext4/resize.c b/fs/ext4/resize.c
index 47bf06a2765d..d99387b89edd 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/resize.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/resize.c
@@ -783,7 +783,7 @@ static int add_new_gdb(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
 
 	err = ext4_journal_get_write_access(handle, gdb_bh);
 	if (unlikely(err))
-		goto exit_sbh;
+		goto exit_dind;
 
 	err = ext4_journal_get_write_access(handle, dind);
 	if (unlikely(err))
@@ -792,7 +792,7 @@ static int add_new_gdb(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
 	/* ext4_reserve_inode_write() gets a reference on the iloc */
 	err = ext4_reserve_inode_write(handle, inode, &iloc);
 	if (unlikely(err))
-		goto exit_dindj;
+		goto exit_dind;
 
 	n_group_desc = ext4_kvmalloc((gdb_num + 1) *
 				     sizeof(struct buffer_head *),
@@ -846,12 +846,7 @@ static int add_new_gdb(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
 
 exit_inode:
 	ext4_kvfree(n_group_desc);
-	/* ext4_handle_release_buffer(handle, iloc.bh); */
 	brelse(iloc.bh);
-exit_dindj:
-	/* ext4_handle_release_buffer(handle, dind); */
-exit_sbh:
-	/* ext4_handle_release_buffer(handle, EXT4_SB(sb)->s_sbh); */
 exit_dind:
 	brelse(dind);
 exit_bh:
@@ -969,14 +964,8 @@ static int reserve_backup_gdb(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
 	}
 
 	for (i = 0; i < reserved_gdb; i++) {
-		if ((err = ext4_journal_get_write_access(handle, primary[i]))) {
-			/*
-			int j;
-			for (j = 0; j < i; j++)
-				ext4_handle_release_buffer(handle, primary[j]);
-			 */
+		if ((err = ext4_journal_get_write_access(handle, primary[i])))
 			goto exit_bh;
-		}
 	}
 
 	if ((err = ext4_reserve_inode_write(handle, inode, &iloc)))
diff --git a/fs/ext4/xattr.c b/fs/ext4/xattr.c
index 2cdb98d62980..b1adda1b750d 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/xattr.c
@@ -794,7 +794,6 @@ ext4_xattr_block_set(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
 			int offset = (char *)s->here - bs->bh->b_data;
 
 			unlock_buffer(bs->bh);
-			ext4_handle_release_buffer(handle, bs->bh);
 			if (ce) {
 				mb_cache_entry_release(ce);
 				ce = NULL;