There does not appear to be a technical reason to not allow the zram backing device to be assigned after the zram device is initialized. This change will allow for the backing device to be assigned as long as no backing device is already assigned. In that event backing_dev would return -EEXIST. Signed-off-by: Brian Geffon <bgeffon@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c b/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c index fcaf2750f68f..12b4555ee079 100644 --- a/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c +++ b/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c @@ -462,9 +462,9 @@ static ssize_t backing_dev_store(struct device *dev, return -ENOMEM; down_write(&zram->init_lock); - if (init_done(zram)) { - pr_info("Can't setup backing device for initialized device\n"); - err = -EBUSY; + if (zram->backing_dev) { + pr_info("Backing device is already assigned\n"); + err = -EEXIST; goto out; } -- 2.33.0.800.g4c38ced690-goog