Hey Rashika,

And please Cc LKML in next.

Thanks!

On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 7:13 PM, Minchan Kim <minc...@kernel.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 07:04:37PM +0530, Rashika Kheria wrote:
>> As suggested by Jerome Marchand "The code in reset_store get the block device
>> (bdget_disk()) but it does not put it (bdput()) when it's done using it.
>> The usage count is therefor incremented but never decremented."
>>
>> Hence, this patch introduces a call to bdput() to decrement the variable 
>> after usage.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Rashika Kheria <rashika.khe...@gmail.com>
>> ---
>>  drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c |    1 +
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c 
>> b/drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c
>> index 8679a06..2cb33ab 100644
>> --- a/drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c
>> +++ b/drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c
>> @@ -664,6 +664,7 @@ static ssize_t reset_store(struct device *dev,
>>
>>       /* Make sure all pending I/O is finished */
>>       fsync_bdev(bdev);
>> +     bdput(bdev);
>
> We should handle error case, too.
> And please put this bug fix patch ahead of [1/2] because this patch is
> more real bug fix than [1/2] which is just warning of smatch.
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Kind regards,
> Minchan Kim



-- 
Kind regards,
Minchan Kim
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