From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2021 06:38:04 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] block: remove the GENHD_FL_HIDDEN check in blkdev_get_no_open
Git-commit: 140862805affca32b3c92a9a7643a7ee6d6ab278
Patch-mainline: v5.17-rc1
References: jsc#PED-1183
Hidden gendisks never hash the block device inode, so this can't happen.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211122130625.1136848-8-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Acked-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
---
block/bdev.c | 8 --------
1 file changed, 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/block/bdev.c b/block/bdev.c
index dd84961bed7e..e9ada04e71be 100644
--- a/block/bdev.c
+++ b/block/bdev.c
@@ -750,14 +750,6 @@ struct block_device *blkdev_get_no_open(dev_t dev)
if (!kobject_get_unless_zero(&bdev->bd_device.kobj))
bdev = NULL;
iput(inode);
-
- if (!bdev)
- return NULL;
- if ((bdev->bd_disk->flags & GENHD_FL_HIDDEN)) {
- put_device(&bdev->bd_device);
- return NULL;
- }
-
return bdev;
}
--
2.35.3