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[v3,03/10] block: clarify badblocks lifetime

Message ID 20160110212756.35359.46860.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com (mailing list archive)
State Accepted
Commit 20a308f09e0d
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Commit Message

Dan Williams Jan. 10, 2016, 9:27 p.m. UTC
The badblocks list attached to a gendisk is allocated by the driver
which equates to the driver owning the lifetime of the object.  Do not
automatically free it in del_gendisk(). This is in preparation for
expanding the use of badblocks in libnvdimm drivers and introducing
devm_init_badblocks().

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
---
 block/badblocks.c |    2 ++
 block/genhd.c     |    5 -----
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/block/badblocks.c b/block/badblocks.c
index fabf6b64c2d1..37e5c0a2ef69 100644
--- a/block/badblocks.c
+++ b/block/badblocks.c
@@ -555,6 +555,8 @@  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(badblocks_init);
  */
 void badblocks_exit(struct badblocks *bb)
 {
+	if (!bb)
+		return;
 	kfree(bb->page);
 	bb->page = NULL;
 }
diff --git a/block/genhd.c b/block/genhd.c
index f463c67e6ba2..aa38cd0a66c7 100644
--- a/block/genhd.c
+++ b/block/genhd.c
@@ -670,11 +670,6 @@  void del_gendisk(struct gendisk *disk)
 	blk_unregister_queue(disk);
 	blk_unregister_region(disk_devt(disk), disk->minors);
 
-	if (disk->bb) {
-		badblocks_exit(disk->bb);
-		kfree(disk->bb);
-	}
-
 	part_stat_set_all(&disk->part0, 0);
 	disk->part0.stamp = 0;