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Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: ibmvfc: don't check for failure from mempool_alloc()
From: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
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Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2017 21:51:28 -0400
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NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com> writes:

> mempool_alloc() cannot fail when passed GFP_NOIO or any other gfp
> setting that is permitted to sleep.  So remove this pointless code.

Applied to 4.12/scsi-queue. Thanks!

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Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering