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| author | Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> | 2011-07-11 14:15:48 +0200 |
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| committer | Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> | 2011-07-11 14:15:55 +0200 |
| commit | b7e9c223be8ce335e30f2cf6ba588e6a4092275c (patch) | |
| tree | 2d1e3b75606abc18df7ad65e51ac3f90cd68b38d /fs/block_dev.c | |
| parent | c172d82500a6cf3c32d1e650722a1055d72ce858 (diff) | |
| parent | e3bbfa78bab125f58b831b5f7f45b5a305091d72 (diff) | |
| download | linux-b7e9c223be8ce335e30f2cf6ba588e6a4092275c.tar.bz2 | |
Merge branch 'master' into for-next
Sync with Linus' tree to be able to apply pending patches that
are based on newer code already present upstream.
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 1a2421f908f0..610e8e0b04b8 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) |