Merge tag 'for-5.7/block-2020-03-29' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block

Pull block updates from Jens Axboe:

 - Online capacity resizing (Balbir)

 - Number of hardware queue change fixes (Bart)

 - null_blk fault injection addition (Bart)

 - Cleanup of queue allocation, unifying the node/no-node API
   (Christoph)

 - Cleanup of genhd, moving code to where it makes sense (Christoph)

 - Cleanup of the partition handling code (Christoph)

 - disk stat fixes/improvements (Konstantin)

 - BFQ improvements (Paolo)

 - Various fixes and improvements

* tag 'for-5.7/block-2020-03-29' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (72 commits)
  block: return NULL in blk_alloc_queue() on error
  block: move bio_map_* to blk-map.c
  Revert "blkdev: check for valid request queue before issuing flush"
  block: simplify queue allocation
  bcache: pass the make_request methods to blk_queue_make_request
  null_blk: use blk_mq_init_queue_data
  block: add a blk_mq_init_queue_data helper
  block: move the ->devnode callback to struct block_device_operations
  block: move the part_stat* helpers from genhd.h to a new header
  block: move block layer internals out of include/linux/genhd.h
  block: move guard_bio_eod to bio.c
  block: unexport get_gendisk
  block: unexport disk_map_sector_rcu
  block: unexport disk_get_part
  block: mark part_in_flight and part_in_flight_rw static
  block: mark block_depr static
  block: factor out requeue handling from dispatch code
  block/diskstats: replace time_in_queue with sum of request times
  block/diskstats: accumulate all per-cpu counters in one pass
  block/diskstats: more accurate approximation of io_ticks for slow disks
  ...

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 14 deletions

diff --git a/block/blk-flush.c b/block/blk-flush.c
index 5cc775bdb06a..c7f396e3d5e2 100644
--- a/block/blk-flush.c
+++ b/block/blk-flush.c
@@ -160,9 +160,6 @@ static void blk_account_io_flush(struct request *rq)
  *
  * CONTEXT:
  * spin_lock_irq(fq->mq_flush_lock)
- *
- * RETURNS:
- * %true if requests were added to the dispatch queue, %false otherwise.
  */
 static void blk_flush_complete_seq(struct request *rq,
 				   struct blk_flush_queue *fq,
@@ -457,15 +454,6 @@ int blkdev_issue_flush(struct block_device *bdev, gfp_t gfp_mask,
 	if (!q)
 		return -ENXIO;
 
-	/*
-	 * some block devices may not have their queue correctly set up here
-	 * (e.g. loop device without a backing file) and so issuing a flush
-	 * here will panic. Ensure there is a request function before issuing
-	 * the flush.
-	 */
-	if (!q->make_request_fn)
-		return -ENXIO;
-
 	bio = bio_alloc(gfp_mask, 0);
 	bio_set_dev(bio, bdev);
 	bio->bi_opf = REQ_OP_WRITE | REQ_PREFLUSH;
@@ -485,8 +473,8 @@ int blkdev_issue_flush(struct block_device *bdev, gfp_t gfp_mask,
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(blkdev_issue_flush);
 
-struct blk_flush_queue *blk_alloc_flush_queue(struct request_queue *q,
-		int node, int cmd_size, gfp_t flags)
+struct blk_flush_queue *blk_alloc_flush_queue(int node, int cmd_size,
+					      gfp_t flags)
 {
 	struct blk_flush_queue *fq;
 	int rq_sz = sizeof(struct request);