[PATCH 2/8] block: remove the extra kobject reference in bd_link_disk_holder
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Date: 2021-08-04 09:44:01
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dm-devel
Subsystem:
block layer, the rest · Maintainers:
Jens Axboe, Linus Torvalds
Since commit 0d02129e76ed ("block: merge struct block_device and struct
hd_struct") there is no way for the bdev to go away as long as there is
a holder, so remove the extra references.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Mike Snitzer <redacted>
---
block/holder.c | 6 ------
1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/block/holder.c b/block/holder.c
index 904a1dcd5c12..960654a71342 100644
--- a/block/holder.c
+++ b/block/holder.c@@ -92,11 +92,6 @@ int bd_link_disk_holder(struct block_device *bdev, struct gendisk *disk) ret = add_symlink(bdev->bd_holder_dir, &disk_to_dev(disk)->kobj); if (ret) goto out_del; - /* - * bdev could be deleted beneath us which would implicitly destroy - * the holder directory. Hold on to it. - */ - kobject_get(bdev->bd_holder_dir); list_add(&holder->list, &bdev->bd_holder_disks); goto out_unlock;
@@ -130,7 +125,6 @@ void bd_unlink_disk_holder(struct block_device *bdev, struct gendisk *disk) if (!WARN_ON_ONCE(holder == NULL) && !--holder->refcnt) { del_symlink(disk->slave_dir, bdev_kobj(bdev)); del_symlink(bdev->bd_holder_dir, &disk_to_dev(disk)->kobj); - kobject_put(bdev->bd_holder_dir); list_del_init(&holder->list); kfree(holder); }
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