Now that md has been cleaned up we can get rid of this hack. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> --- fs/block_dev.c | 6 ------ 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/block_dev.c b/fs/block_dev.c index 535d29fa06fa47..0c09b6517b20b7 100644 --- a/fs/block_dev.c +++ b/fs/block_dev.c @@ -1430,10 +1430,6 @@ struct block_device *blkdev_get_by_dev(dev_t dev, fmode_t mode, void *holder) if (ret) return ERR_PTR(ret); - /* - * If we lost a race with 'disk' being deleted, try again. See md.c. - */ -retry: bdev = blkdev_get_no_open(dev); if (!bdev) return ERR_PTR(-ENXIO); @@ -1480,8 +1476,6 @@ struct block_device *blkdev_get_by_dev(dev_t dev, fmode_t mode, void *holder) disk_unblock_events(disk); put_blkdev: blkdev_put_no_open(bdev); - if (ret == -ERESTARTSYS) - goto retry; return ERR_PTR(ret); } EXPORT_SYMBOL(blkdev_get_by_dev); -- 2.30.1