For partitions, cdev->priv references the parent block device. Doing the pointer arithmetic in container_of will result in an out-of-bounds access. Do what the rest of the code does and access cdev->priv instead. Fixes: 84173bf3d0cc ("block: set S_IFBLK for block devices instead of S_IFCHR") Signed-off-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- common/block.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/common/block.c b/common/block.c index 19bb81df2c3d..a4cfd6e22771 100644 --- a/common/block.c +++ b/common/block.c @@ -366,7 +366,7 @@ struct block_device *cdev_get_block_device(struct cdev *cdev) if (!cdev || cdev->ops != &block_ops) return NULL; - return container_of(cdev, struct block_device, cdev); + return cdev->priv; } int blockdevice_register(struct block_device *blk) -- 2.30.2