On 5/21/21 7:50 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
Add a flag to indicate that __device_add_disk did grab a queue reference
so that disk_release only drops it if we actually had it. This sort
out one of the major pitfals with partially initialized gendisk that
pitfalls
a lot of drivers did get wrong or still do.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
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block/genhd.c | 7 +++++--
include/linux/genhd.h | 1 +
2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxx>
Cheers,
Hannes
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