[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, 6 deletions

diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c
index 4a2fee2cb62b..a3598b542a31 100644
--- a/mm/filemap.c
+++ b/mm/filemap.c
@@ -1827,12 +1827,6 @@ inline int generic_write_checks(struct file *file, loff_t *pos, size_t *count, i
         if (unlikely(*pos < 0))
                 return -EINVAL;
 
-        if (unlikely(file->f_error)) {
-                int err = file->f_error;
-                file->f_error = 0;
-                return err;
-        }
-
         if (!isblk) {
                 /* FIXME: this is for backwards compatibility with 2.4 */
                 if (file->f_flags & O_APPEND)