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| author | Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> | 2011-08-02 20:14:02 (GMT) |
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| committer | Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> | 2011-08-02 20:14:02 (GMT) |
| commit | 3d071cd313643cf82b1ce1ce4fdf08d63ad53964 (patch) | |
| tree | 874c1683f32f07614aa123f6ca5cf6c2bd443704 /fs/block_dev.c | |
| parent | cf8e98d15361f8c594da00a3f7a500787fc1a426 (diff) | |
| parent | 02f8c6aee8df3cdc935e9bdd4f2d020306035dbe (diff) | |
| download | linux-fsl-qoriq-3d071cd313643cf82b1ce1ce4fdf08d63ad53964.tar.xz | |
Merge tag 'v3.0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 into for-linus
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) |