# \[PATCH 15/17\] nfs/blocklayout: remove cruft in bl\_alloc\_init\_bio

- From: Christoph Hellwig \<hch@lst.de\>
- Date: 2021-01-26 15:25:09 
- List: linux-nfs
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-nfs/2021/01/198461
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-f2fs-devel/2021/01/198441/t.md

```text
bio_alloc never returns NULL when it can sleep.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
---
 fs/nfs/blocklayout/blocklayout.c | 5 -----
 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/nfs/blocklayout/blocklayout.c b/fs/nfs/blocklayout/blocklayout.c
index 3be6836074ae92..1a96ce28efb026 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/blocklayout/blocklayout.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/blocklayout/blocklayout.c
@@ -123,11 +123,6 @@ bl_alloc_init_bio(int npg, struct block_device *bdev, sector_t disk_sector,
 
 	npg = min(npg, BIO_MAX_PAGES);
 	bio = bio_alloc(GFP_NOIO, npg);
-	if (!bio && (current->flags & PF_MEMALLOC)) {
-		while (!bio && (npg /= 2))
-			bio = bio_alloc(GFP_NOIO, npg);
-	}
-
 	if (bio) {
 		bio->bi_iter.bi_sector = disk_sector;
 		bio_set_dev(bio, bdev);
-- 
2.29.2

```
