[PATCH 19/32] ntfs3: Drop pointless sync_mapping_buffers() call

Jan Kara <[email protected]> Tue, 3 Mar 2026 11:34:08 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.linux.kernel.aio.general,gmane.linux.file-systems,gmane.comp.file-systems.ext4,gmane.linux.kernel.mm
Message-ID <[email protected]>
ntfs3 never calls mark_buffer_dirty_inode() and thus its metadata
buffers list is always empty. Drop the pointless sync_mapping_buffers()
call.

CC: Konstantin Komarov <[email protected]>
CC: [email protected]
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <[email protected]>
---
 fs/ntfs3/file.c | 3 ---
 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ntfs3/file.c b/fs/ntfs3/file.c
index 7eecf1e01f74..570c92fa7ee7 100644
--- a/fs/ntfs3/file.c
+++ b/fs/ntfs3/file.c
@@ -387,9 +387,6 @@ static int ntfs_extend(struct inode *inode, loff_t pos, size_t count,
 		int err2;
 
 		err = filemap_fdatawrite_range(mapping, pos, end - 1);
-		err2 = sync_mapping_buffers(mapping);
-		if (!err)
-			err = err2;
 		err2 = write_inode_now(inode, 1);
 		if (!err)
 			err = err2;
-- 
2.51.0


--
To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-aio' in
the body to [email protected].  For more info on Linux AIO,
see: http://www.kvack.org/aio/
Don't email: <a href=mailto:"[email protected]">[email protected]</a>