We just checked a little above that the block device for the partition im busy. That implies no file system is mounted, and thus the only thing in fsync_bdev that actually is used is sync_blockdev. Just call sync_blockdev directly. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@xxxxxxx> --- block/partitions/core.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/block/partitions/core.c b/block/partitions/core.c index a94d296d7aed..c085bf85509b 100644 --- a/block/partitions/core.c +++ b/block/partitions/core.c @@ -531,7 +531,7 @@ int bdev_del_partition(struct block_device *bdev, int partno) if (bdevp->bd_openers) goto out_unlock; - fsync_bdev(bdevp); + sync_blockdev(bdevp); invalidate_bdev(bdevp); mutex_lock_nested(&bdev->bd_mutex, 1); -- 2.25.1
