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| author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2011-07-01 10:28:42 +0200 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2011-07-01 10:28:46 +0200 |
| commit | 10e6962765f8213941eaa1cbb9de425ff0689e2e (patch) | |
| tree | c277e4ac5b2b7156152454578c39e90da5127dd8 /fs/block_dev.c | |
| parent | af07ce3e77d3b24ab1d71fcc5833d41800f23b2b (diff) | |
| parent | b0af8dfdd67699e25083478c63eedef2e72ebd85 (diff) | |
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Merge commit 'v3.0-rc5' into perf/core
Merge reason: Pick up the latest fixes.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/block_dev.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/block_dev.c | 14 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/block_dev.c b/fs/block_dev.c index 1a2421f..610e8e0 100644 --- a/fs/block_dev.c +++ b/fs/block_dev.c @@ -762,7 +762,19 @@ static struct block_device *bd_start_claiming(struct block_device *bdev, if (!disk) return ERR_PTR(-ENXIO); - whole = bdget_disk(disk, 0); + /* + * Normally, @bdev should equal what's returned from bdget_disk() + * if partno is 0; however, some drivers (floppy) use multiple + * bdev's for the same physical device and @bdev may be one of the + * aliases. Keep @bdev if partno is 0. This means claimer + * tracking is broken for those devices but it has always been that + * way. + */ + if (partno) + whole = bdget_disk(disk, 0); + else + whole = bdgrab(bdev); + module_put(disk->fops->owner); put_disk(disk); if (!whole) |
