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Commit 3c522ced authored by Miklos Szeredi's avatar Miklos Szeredi Committed by Linus Torvalds
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block: fix refcounting in BLKBSZSET

Adam Kovari and others reported that disconnecting an USB drive with
an ntfs-3g filesystem would cause "kernel BUG at fs/inode.c:1421!" to
be triggered.

The BUG could be traced back to ioctl(BLKBSZSET), which would
erroneously decrement the refcount on the bdev.  This is because
blkdev_get() expects the refcount to be already incremented and either
returns success or decrements the refcount and returns an error.

The bug was introduced by e525fd89

 (block: make blkdev_get/put()
handle exclusive access), which didn't take into account this behavior
of blkdev_get().

This fixes
  https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29202
(and likely 29792 too)

Reported-by: default avatarAdam Kovari <kovariadam@gmail.com>
Acked-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent dcace5ac
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