On Fri 05-06-20 12:43:54, Dan Carpenter wrote: > I wonder if maybe the best fix is to re-add the "if (!res) " check back > to blkdev_get(). Well, it won't be that simple since we need to call bd_abort_claiming() under bdev->bd_mutex. And the fact that __blkdev_get() frees the reference you pass to it is somewhat subtle and surprising so I think we are better off getting rid of that. Honza -- Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx> SUSE Labs, CR