# \[PATCH 14/20\] block: remove the NULL queue check in generic\_make\_request\_checks

- From: Christoph Hellwig \<hch@lst.de\>
- Date: 2020-07-01 09:00:27 
- List: linuxppc-dev
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/linuxppc-dev/2020/07/6021460
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/linuxppc-dev/2020/07/6021473/t.md

```text
All registers disks must have a valid queue pointer, so don't bother to
log a warning for that case.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
---
 block/blk-core.c | 12 +-----------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/block/blk-core.c b/block/blk-core.c
index 95dca74534ff73..37435d0d433564 100644
--- a/block/blk-core.c
+++ b/block/blk-core.c
@@ -973,22 +973,12 @@ static inline blk_status_t blk_check_zone_append(struct request_queue *q,
 static noinline_for_stack bool
 generic_make_request_checks(struct bio *bio)
 {
-	struct request_queue *q;
+	struct request_queue *q = bio->bi_disk->queue;
 	int nr_sectors = bio_sectors(bio);
 	blk_status_t status = BLK_STS_IOERR;
-	char b[BDEVNAME_SIZE];
 
 	might_sleep();
 
-	q = bio->bi_disk->queue;
-	if (unlikely(!q)) {
-		printk(KERN_ERR
-		       "generic_make_request: Trying to access "
-			"nonexistent block-device %s (%Lu)\n",
-			bio_devname(bio, b), (long long)bio->bi_iter.bi_sector);
-		goto end_io;
-	}
-
 	/*
 	 * For a REQ_NOWAIT based request, return -EOPNOTSUPP
 	 * if queue is not a request based queue.
-- 
2.26.2

```
