From 0d2d0f3d93ddd6556f23c917d910becd9925ddeb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Linus Torvalds Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2025 07:35:40 -1000 Subject: [PATCH] fs/pipe: remove buggy and unused 'helper' function While looking for incorrect users of the pipe head/tail fields (see commit c27c66afc449: "fs/pipe: Fix pipe_occupancy() with 16-bit indexes"), I found a bug in pipe_discard_from() that looked entirely broken. However, the fix is trivial: this buggy function isn't actually called by anything, so let's just remove it ASAP. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/pipe_fs_i.h | 9 --------- 1 file changed, 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/pipe_fs_i.h b/include/linux/pipe_fs_i.h index 05ccbc5d01294..e572e6fc4f81f 100644 --- a/include/linux/pipe_fs_i.h +++ b/include/linux/pipe_fs_i.h @@ -281,15 +281,6 @@ static inline bool pipe_buf_try_steal(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe, return buf->ops->try_steal(pipe, buf); } -static inline void pipe_discard_from(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe, - unsigned int old_head) -{ - unsigned int mask = pipe->ring_size - 1; - - while (pipe->head > old_head) - pipe_buf_release(pipe, &pipe->bufs[--pipe->head & mask]); -} - /* Differs from PIPE_BUF in that PIPE_SIZE is the length of the actual memory allocation, whereas PIPE_BUF makes atomicity guarantees. */ #define PIPE_SIZE PAGE_SIZE -- 2.47.2