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authorChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>2020-05-04 14:47:56 +0200
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2021-08-08 08:54:29 +0200
commitd6c434ae9d3b5cd1fcb8e3aa28172f3d79d81641 (patch)
tree194bc9a73bf569e36942e5e7afe9ac21faeb1ec8 /mm/backing-dev.c
parent19a845e19ded4f81dad2a0941f44fb668ed25564 (diff)
bdi: add a ->dev_name field to struct backing_dev_info
[ Upstream commit 6bd87eec23cbc9ed222bed0f5b5b02bf300e9a8d ] Cache a copy of the name for the life time of the backing_dev_info structure so that we can reference it even after unregistering. Fixes: 68f23b89067f ("memcg: fix a crash in wb_workfn when a device disappears") Reported-by: Yufen Yu <yuyufen@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/backing-dev.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/backing-dev.c5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mm/backing-dev.c b/mm/backing-dev.c
index 8501b033bca8..1d37c80d023a 100644
--- a/mm/backing-dev.c
+++ b/mm/backing-dev.c
@@ -880,7 +880,8 @@ int bdi_register_va(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, const char *fmt, va_list args)
if (bdi->dev) /* The driver needs to use separate queues per device */
return 0;
- dev = device_create_vargs(bdi_class, NULL, MKDEV(0, 0), bdi, fmt, args);
+ vsnprintf(bdi->dev_name, sizeof(bdi->dev_name), fmt, args);
+ dev = device_create(bdi_class, NULL, MKDEV(0, 0), bdi, bdi->dev_name);
if (IS_ERR(dev))
return PTR_ERR(dev);
@@ -980,7 +981,7 @@ const char *bdi_dev_name(struct backing_dev_info *bdi)
{
if (!bdi || !bdi->dev)
return bdi_unknown_name;
- return dev_name(bdi->dev);
+ return bdi->dev_name;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(bdi_dev_name);