don't use ->bd_inode to access the block device size

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Re: don't use ->bd_inode to access the block device size

From: Wol <hidden>
Date: 2021-10-14 17:04:49

On 14/10/2021 16:14, Kees Cook wrote:

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I don't really mind bdev_size since it's analogous to i_size, but
bdev_nr_bytes seems good to me.

I much prefer bdev_nr_bytes(), as "size" has no units.

Does it mean size IN bytes, or size OF A byte? :-)

Cheers,
Wol