Hi, In the blk-zoned, bcache, f2fs and blktrace implementation block device->hd_part->number of sectors field is accessed directly without any appropriate locking or accessor function. There is an existing accessor function present in the in include/linux/genhd.h which should be used to read the bdev->hd_part->nr_sects. >From ${KERN_DIR}/include/linux/genhd.h:- <snip> 714 /* 715 * Any access of part->nr_sects which is not protected by partition 716 * bd_mutex or gendisk bdev bd_mutex, should be done using this 717 * accessor function. 718 * 719 * Code written along the lines of i_size_read() and i_size_write(). 720 * CONFIG_PREEMPT case optimizes the case of UP kernel with preemption 721 * on. 722 */ 723 static inline sector_t part_nr_sects_read(struct hd_struct *part) 724 { <snip> This patch series introduces a helper function on the top of the part_nr_sects_read() and removes the all direct accesses to the bdev->hd_part->nr_sects for blk-zoned.c. This series is based on :- 1. Repo :- git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux-block.git. 2. Branch :- for-next. Regards, Chaitanya Changes from V1:- 1. Drop the target_pscsi patch. (Bart) 2. Remove rcu locking which is not needed. (Bart) Chaitanya Kulkarni (7): block: add a helper function to read nr_setcs blk-zoned: update blkdev_nr_zones() with helper blk-zoned: update blkdev_report_zone() with helper blk-zoned: update blkdev_reset_zones() with helper bcache: update cached_dev_init() with helper f2fs: use helper in init_blkz_info() blktrace: use helper in blk_trace_setup_lba() block/blk-zoned.c | 12 ++++++------ drivers/md/bcache/super.c | 2 +- fs/f2fs/super.c | 2 +- include/linux/blkdev.h | 10 ++++++++++ kernel/trace/blktrace.c | 2 +- 5 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) -- 2.19.1