This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
PM: hibernate: remove the bogus call to get_gendisk() in software_resume()
to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
pm-hibernate-remove-the-bogus-call-to-get_gendisk-in.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 6997c5a070d184a0c7f36d380c06a9dacb43fabb
Author: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
Date: Fri Sep 25 18:14:47 2020 +0200
PM: hibernate: remove the bogus call to get_gendisk() in software_resume()
[ Upstream commit 428805c0c5e76ef643b1fbc893edfb636b3d8aef ]
get_gendisk grabs a reference on the disk and file operation, so this
code will leak both of them while having absolutely no use for the
gendisk itself.
This effectively reverts commit 2df83fa4bce421f ("PM / Hibernate: Use
get_gendisk to verify partition if resume_file is integer format")
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/kernel/power/hibernate.c b/kernel/power/hibernate.c
index 3124cebaec31e..7d73b30c55ccd 100644
--- a/kernel/power/hibernate.c
+++ b/kernel/power/hibernate.c
@@ -779,17 +779,6 @@ static int software_resume(void)
/* Check if the device is there */
swsusp_resume_device = name_to_dev_t(resume_file);
-
- /*
- * name_to_dev_t is ineffective to verify parition if resume_file is in
- * integer format. (e.g. major:minor)
- */
- if (isdigit(resume_file[0]) && resume_wait) {
- int partno;
- while (!get_gendisk(swsusp_resume_device, &partno))
- msleep(10);
- }
-
if (!swsusp_resume_device) {
/*
* Some device discovery might still be in progress; we need
