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authorTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>2011-06-13 12:45:48 +0200
committerJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>2011-06-13 12:45:48 +0200
commitd4c208b86b8be4254eba0e74071496e599f94639 (patch)
treea6fdc5fd90ea028433d268038c07919c4f47eed4 /kernel/fork.c
parent08e8138adebdd511e0955e8d6c051904bb4082af (diff)
block: use the passed in @bdev when claiming if partno is zero
6b4517a791 (block: implement bd_claiming and claiming block) introduced claiming block to support O_EXCL blkdev opens properly. bd_start_claiming() looks up the part 0 bdev and starts claiming block. The function assumed that there is only one part 0 bdev and always used bdget_disk(disk, 0) to look it up; unfortunately, this isn't true for some drivers (floppy) which use multiple block devices to denote different operating parameters for the same physical device. There can be multiple part 0 bdev's for the same device number. This incorrect assumption caused the wrong bdev to be used during claiming leading to unbalanced bd_holders as reported in the following bug. https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28522 This patch updates bd_start_claiming() such that it uses the bdev specified as argument if its partno is zero. Note that this means that different bdev's can be used for the same device and O_EXCL check can be effectively bypassed. It has always been broken that way and floppy is fortunately on its way out. Leave that breakage alone. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reported-by: Alex Villacis Lasso <avillaci@ceibo.fiec.espol.edu.ec> Tested-by: Alex Villacis Lasso <avillaci@ceibo.fiec.espol.edu.ec> Cc: stable@kernel.org # >= v2.6.36 Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
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