block: remove the blk_execute_rq return value

The function only returns -EIO if rq->errors is non-zero, which is not
very useful and lets a large number of callers ignore the return value.

Just let the callers figure out their error themselves.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <Bart.VanAssche@sandisk.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/block/blk-exec.c b/block/blk-exec.c
index 8cd0e9bc8dc8..afa383248c7c 100644
--- a/block/blk-exec.c
+++ b/block/blk-exec.c
@@ -92,11 +92,10 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(blk_execute_rq_nowait);
  *    Insert a fully prepared request at the back of the I/O scheduler queue
  *    for execution and wait for completion.
  */
-int blk_execute_rq(struct request_queue *q, struct gendisk *bd_disk,
+void blk_execute_rq(struct request_queue *q, struct gendisk *bd_disk,
                    struct request *rq, int at_head)
 {
         DECLARE_COMPLETION_ONSTACK(wait);
-        int err = 0;
         unsigned long hang_check;
 
         rq->end_io_data = &wait;
@@ -108,10 +107,5 @@ int blk_execute_rq(struct request_queue *q, struct gendisk *bd_disk,
                 while (!wait_for_completion_io_timeout(&wait, hang_check * (HZ/2)));
         else
                 wait_for_completion_io(&wait);
-
-        if (rq->errors)
-                err = -EIO;
-
-        return err;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(blk_execute_rq);