Ever since commit eca2040972b4("scsi: block: ioprio: Clean up interface definition"), the macro IOPRIO_PRIO_LEVEL() will mask the level value to something between 0 and 7 so necessarily, level will always be lower than IOPRIO_NR_LEVELS(8). Remove this obsolete check. Reported-by: Kexin Wei <ys.weikexin@xxxxxxx> Cc: Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Aaron Lu <ziqianlu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- v2: Address comments from Damien Le Moal, thanks. - Rephrase changelog as suggested by Damien Le Moal; - Remove an useless break for IOPRIO_CLASS_BE as suggested by Damien Le Moal. block/ioprio.c | 6 +----- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/block/ioprio.c b/block/ioprio.c index 73301a261429f..f0ee2798539c0 100644 --- a/block/ioprio.c +++ b/block/ioprio.c @@ -46,12 +46,8 @@ int ioprio_check_cap(int ioprio) */ if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN) && !capable(CAP_SYS_NICE)) return -EPERM; - fallthrough; - /* rt has prio field too */ - case IOPRIO_CLASS_BE: - if (level >= IOPRIO_NR_LEVELS) - return -EINVAL; break; + case IOPRIO_CLASS_BE: case IOPRIO_CLASS_IDLE: break; case IOPRIO_CLASS_NONE: -- 2.39.5