[PATCH] Remove f_error field from struct file

The following patch removes the f_error field and all checks of f_error.

Trond said:

  f_error was introduced for NFS, and made sense when we were guaranteed
  always to have a file pointer around when write errors occurred.  Since
  then, we have (for various reasons) had to introduce the nfs_open_context in
  order to track the file read/write state, and it made sense to move our
  f_error tracking there too.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/fs/nfs/direct.c b/fs/nfs/direct.c
index d6a30c844de3..6537f2c4ae44 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/direct.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/direct.c
@@ -751,11 +751,6 @@ nfs_file_direct_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const char __user *buf, size_t count,
         retval = -EFAULT;
         if (!access_ok(VERIFY_READ, iov.iov_base, iov.iov_len))
                 goto out;
-        if (file->f_error) {
-                retval = file->f_error;
-                file->f_error = 0;
-                goto out;
-        }
         retval = -EFBIG;
         if (limit != RLIM_INFINITY) {
                 if (pos >= limit) {