bdget_disk() and blk_lookup_devt() never cared whether the specified partition (or disk) is zero sized or not. I got confused while converting those not to depend on consecutive minor numbers in commit 5a6411b1178baf534aa9138052864dfa89d3eada and later when dev0 was added it broke callers which expected to get valid return for zero sized disk devices. So, they never needed nr_sects checks in the first place. Kill them. This problem was spotted and debugged by Bartlmoiej Zolnierkiewicz. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@xxxxxxxxx> --- Thanks for the good spotting. I got confused between the meaning of !part and !part->nr_sects and added the wrong check during conversion. I audited the rest and it seems those two are the only ones. Thanks. block/genhd.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) Index: work/block/genhd.c =================================================================== --- work.orig/block/genhd.c +++ work/block/genhd.c @@ -586,7 +586,7 @@ extern struct block_device *bdget_disk(s struct block_device *bdev = NULL; part = disk_get_part(disk, partno); - if (part && (part->nr_sects || partno == 0)) + if (part) bdev = bdget(part_devt(part)); disk_put_part(part); @@ -1032,7 +1032,7 @@ dev_t blk_lookup_devt(const char *name, continue; part = disk_get_part(disk, partno); - if (part && (part->nr_sects || partno == 0)) { + if (part) { devt = part_devt(part); disk_put_part(part); break; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-next" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html