The long if/else chain obsfucates the actual logic. Tidy it up to be more structured. Also drop the whole argument, as it can be trivially derived from bdev using bdev_whole, and having the bdev_whole in the function makes it easier to follow. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> --- block/bdev.c | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++++------------------ 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-) diff --git a/block/bdev.c b/block/bdev.c index 317bfd9cba40fa..080b5c83bfbc72 100644 --- a/block/bdev.c +++ b/block/bdev.c @@ -463,7 +463,6 @@ long nr_blockdev_pages(void) /** * bd_may_claim - test whether a block device can be claimed * @bdev: block device of interest - * @whole: whole block device containing @bdev, may equal @bdev * @holder: holder trying to claim @bdev * * Test whether @bdev can be claimed by @holder. @@ -474,22 +473,27 @@ long nr_blockdev_pages(void) * RETURNS: * %true if @bdev can be claimed, %false otherwise. */ -static bool bd_may_claim(struct block_device *bdev, struct block_device *whole, - void *holder) +static bool bd_may_claim(struct block_device *bdev, void *holder) { - if (bdev->bd_holder == holder) - return true; /* already a holder */ - else if (bdev->bd_holder != NULL) - return false; /* held by someone else */ - else if (whole == bdev) - return true; /* is a whole device which isn't held */ - - else if (whole->bd_holder == bd_may_claim) - return true; /* is a partition of a device that is being partitioned */ - else if (whole->bd_holder != NULL) - return false; /* is a partition of a held device */ - else - return true; /* is a partition of an un-held device */ + struct block_device *whole = bdev_whole(bdev); + + if (bdev->bd_holder) { + /* + * The same holder can always re-claim. + */ + if (bdev->bd_holder == holder) + return true; + return false; + } + + /* + * If the whole devices holder is set to bd_may_claim, a partition on + * the device is claimed, but not the whole device. + */ + if (whole != bdev && + whole->bd_holder && whole->bd_holder != bd_may_claim) + return false; + return true; } /** @@ -513,7 +517,7 @@ int bd_prepare_to_claim(struct block_device *bdev, void *holder) retry: spin_lock(&bdev_lock); /* if someone else claimed, fail */ - if (!bd_may_claim(bdev, whole, holder)) { + if (!bd_may_claim(bdev, holder)) { spin_unlock(&bdev_lock); return -EBUSY; } @@ -559,7 +563,7 @@ static void bd_finish_claiming(struct block_device *bdev, void *holder) struct block_device *whole = bdev_whole(bdev); spin_lock(&bdev_lock); - BUG_ON(!bd_may_claim(bdev, whole, holder)); + BUG_ON(!bd_may_claim(bdev, holder)); /* * Note that for a whole device bd_holders will be incremented twice, * and bd_holder will be set to bd_may_claim before being set to holder -- 2.39.2