[PATCH 03/42] ntfs3: Drop pointless sync_mapping_buffers() and invalidate_inode_buffers() calls

Jan Kara <[email protected]> Thu, 26 Mar 2026 10:53:57 +0100
Newsgroups dev.linux.lists.ntfs3,org.kernel.vger.linux-block,org.kernel.vger.linux-ext4,org.kernel.vger.linux-fsdevel,org.kvack.linux-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()
and invalidate_inode_buffers() calls.

CC: Konstantin Komarov <[email protected]>
CC: [email protected]
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <[email protected]>
---
 fs/ntfs3/file.c  | 3 ---
 fs/ntfs3/inode.c | 1 -
 2 files changed, 4 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;
diff --git a/fs/ntfs3/inode.c b/fs/ntfs3/inode.c
index 6e65066ebcc1..5d8f04dedcc8 100644
--- a/fs/ntfs3/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ntfs3/inode.c
@@ -1860,7 +1860,6 @@ void ntfs_evict_inode(struct inode *inode)
 {
 	truncate_inode_pages_final(&inode->i_data);
 
-	invalidate_inode_buffers(inode);
 	clear_inode(inode);
 
 	ni_clear(ntfs_i(inode));
-- 
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