[PATCH 7/8] loop: remove extra variable in lo_req_flush

Chaitanya Kulkarni
2022-02-14T10:37:08Z

The local variable file is used to pass it to the vfs_fsync(). We can
get away with using lo->lo_backing_file instead of storing in a local
variable which is not used anywhere else.

No functional change in this patch.

Signed-off-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <kch@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Himanshu Madhani <himanshu.madhani@oracle.com>
---
drivers/block/loop.c | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/block/loop.c b/drivers/block/loop.c
index 77c61eaaa6e4..18b30a56bfc4 100644
--- a/drivers/block/loop.c
+++ b/drivers/block/loop.c
@@ -326,8 +326,7 @@ static int lo_fallocate(struct loop_device *lo, struct request *rq, loff_t pos,

static int lo_req_flush(struct loop_device *lo, struct request *rq)
{
- struct file *file = lo->lo_backing_file;
- int ret = vfs_fsync(file, 0);
+ int ret = vfs_fsync(lo->lo_backing_file, 0);
if (unlikely(ret && ret != -EINVAL))
ret = -EIO;

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2.29.0