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-rw-r--r--fs/block_dev.c10
-rw-r--r--include/linux/fs.h1
-rw-r--r--mm/swapfile.c4
3 files changed, 13 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/block_dev.c b/fs/block_dev.c
index 3a6d4fb2a329..94dfda24c06e 100644
--- a/fs/block_dev.c
+++ b/fs/block_dev.c
@@ -564,6 +564,16 @@ struct block_device *bdget(dev_t dev)
EXPORT_SYMBOL(bdget);
+/**
+ * bdgrab -- Grab a reference to an already referenced block device
+ * @bdev: Block device to grab a reference to.
+ */
+struct block_device *bdgrab(struct block_device *bdev)
+{
+ atomic_inc(&bdev->bd_inode->i_count);
+ return bdev;
+}
+
long nr_blockdev_pages(void)
{
struct block_device *bdev;
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index 0872372184fe..a36ffa5a77a4 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -1946,6 +1946,7 @@ extern void putname(const char *name);
extern int register_blkdev(unsigned int, const char *);
extern void unregister_blkdev(unsigned int, const char *);
extern struct block_device *bdget(dev_t);
+extern struct block_device *bdgrab(struct block_device *bdev);
extern void bd_set_size(struct block_device *, loff_t size);
extern void bd_forget(struct inode *inode);
extern void bdput(struct block_device *);
diff --git a/mm/swapfile.c b/mm/swapfile.c
index d1ade1a48ee7..8ffdc0d23c53 100644
--- a/mm/swapfile.c
+++ b/mm/swapfile.c
@@ -753,7 +753,7 @@ int swap_type_of(dev_t device, sector_t offset, struct block_device **bdev_p)
if (!bdev) {
if (bdev_p)
- *bdev_p = bdget(sis->bdev->bd_dev);
+ *bdev_p = bdgrab(sis->bdev);
spin_unlock(&swap_lock);
return i;
@@ -765,7 +765,7 @@ int swap_type_of(dev_t device, sector_t offset, struct block_device **bdev_p)
struct swap_extent, list);
if (se->start_block == offset) {
if (bdev_p)
- *bdev_p = bdget(sis->bdev->bd_dev);
+ *bdev_p = bdgrab(sis->bdev);
spin_unlock(&swap_lock);
bdput(bdev);