All of the current callers already have a reference, but to prepare for additional users ensure bdgrab returns NULL if the block device is beeing freed.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]> --- fs/block_dev.c | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/block_dev.c b/fs/block_dev.c index d707ab376da86e..962fabe8a67b83 100644 --- a/fs/block_dev.c +++ b/fs/block_dev.c @@ -894,10 +894,14 @@ static struct block_device *bdget(dev_t dev) /** * bdgrab -- Grab a reference to an already referenced block device * @bdev: Block device to grab a reference to. + * + * Returns the block_device with an additional reference when successful, + * or NULL if the inode is already beeing freed. */ struct block_device *bdgrab(struct block_device *bdev) { - ihold(bdev->bd_inode); + if (!igrab(bdev->bd_inode)) + return NULL; return bdev; } EXPORT_SYMBOL(bdgrab); -- 2.29.2 -- dm-devel mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel
