We generally want to read and write to a block device that's used by the pNFS block layout client (and even if it's read only the server has no way of telling us). Add FMODE_WRITE to the mode argument so that we don't incorrectly tell the block driver that we want a read-only open. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> --- fs/nfs/blocklayout/dev.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/nfs/blocklayout/dev.c b/fs/nfs/blocklayout/dev.c index d76993a..a861bbd 100644 --- a/fs/nfs/blocklayout/dev.c +++ b/fs/nfs/blocklayout/dev.c @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ bl_free_device(struct pnfs_block_dev *dev) kfree(dev->children); } else { if (dev->bdev) - blkdev_put(dev->bdev, FMODE_READ); + blkdev_put(dev->bdev, FMODE_READ | FMODE_WRITE); } } @@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ bl_parse_simple(struct nfs_server *server, struct pnfs_block_dev *d, if (!dev) return -EIO; - d->bdev = blkdev_get_by_dev(dev, FMODE_READ, NULL); + d->bdev = blkdev_get_by_dev(dev, FMODE_READ | FMODE_WRITE, NULL); if (IS_ERR(d->bdev)) { printk(KERN_WARNING "pNFS: failed to open device %d:%d (%ld)\n", MAJOR(dev), MINOR(dev), PTR_ERR(d->bdev)); -- 1.9.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html