The only case that nr_pages will be < 0 is that nr_pages overflowed due
to nr_events is too big. But it is exclued at ioctx_alloc().
Thus, nr_pages will always > 0. So remove the dead 'if (nr_pages < 0)'
code block.
Signed-off-by: Yuanhan Liu <redacted>
---
fs/aio.c | 4 ----
1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/aio.c b/fs/aio.c
index 55c4c76..7248327 100644
--- a/fs/aio.c
+++ b/fs/aio.c
@@ -117,10 +117,6 @@ static int aio_setup_ring(struct kioctx *ctx)
size = sizeof(struct aio_ring);
size += sizeof(struct io_event) * nr_events;
nr_pages = (size + PAGE_SIZE-1) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
-
- if (nr_pages < 0)
- return -EINVAL;
-
nr_events = (PAGE_SIZE * nr_pages - sizeof(struct aio_ring)) / sizeof(struct io_event);
info->nr = 0;
--
1.7.7.6