[PATCH v3] fs/buffer: remove the min and max limit checks in __getblk_slow()
From: Pankaj Raghav
Date: Wed Jun 25 2025 - 04:37:35 EST
All filesystems will already check the max and min value of their block
size during their initialization. __getblk_slow() is a very low-level
function to have these checks. Remove them and only check for logical
block size alignment.
Suggested-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Pankaj Raghav <p.raghav@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Changes since v2:
- Removed the max and min checks in __getblk_slow().
fs/buffer.c | 10 +++-------
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c
index a14d281c6a74..a1aa01ebc0ce 100644
--- a/fs/buffer.c
+++ b/fs/buffer.c
@@ -1122,13 +1122,9 @@ __getblk_slow(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t block,
{
bool blocking = gfpflags_allow_blocking(gfp);
- if (unlikely(size & (bdev_logical_block_size(bdev) - 1) ||
- (size < 512 || size > PAGE_SIZE))) {
- printk(KERN_ERR "getblk(): invalid block size %d requested\n",
- size);
- printk(KERN_ERR "logical block size: %d\n",
- bdev_logical_block_size(bdev));
-
+ if (unlikely(size & (bdev_logical_block_size(bdev) - 1))) {
+ printk(KERN_ERR "getblk(): block size %d not aligned to logical block size %d\n",
+ size, bdev_logical_block_size(bdev));
dump_stack();
return NULL;
}
base-commit: 6ae58121126dcf8efcc2611f216a36a5e50b8ad9
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2.49.0