[PATCH AUTOSEL 3.18 58/61] block/swim3: Fix -EBUSY error when re-opening device after unmount

Sasha Levin sashal at kernel.org
Tue Jan 29 03:26:20 AEDT 2019


From: Finn Thain <fthain at telegraphics.com.au>

[ Upstream commit 296dcc40f2f2e402facf7cd26cf3f2c8f4b17d47 ]

When the block device is opened with FMODE_EXCL, ref_count is set to -1.
This value doesn't get reset when the device is closed which means the
device cannot be opened again. Fix this by checking for refcount <= 0
in the release method.

Reported-and-tested-by: Stan Johnson <userm57 at yahoo.com>
Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Cc: linuxppc-dev at lists.ozlabs.org
Signed-off-by: Finn Thain <fthain at telegraphics.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe at kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal at kernel.org>
---
 drivers/block/swim3.c | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/block/swim3.c b/drivers/block/swim3.c
index 523ee8fd4c15..eaf1336623aa 100644
--- a/drivers/block/swim3.c
+++ b/drivers/block/swim3.c
@@ -1027,7 +1027,11 @@ static void floppy_release(struct gendisk *disk, fmode_t mode)
 	struct swim3 __iomem *sw = fs->swim3;
 
 	mutex_lock(&swim3_mutex);
-	if (fs->ref_count > 0 && --fs->ref_count == 0) {
+	if (fs->ref_count > 0)
+		--fs->ref_count;
+	else if (fs->ref_count == -1)
+		fs->ref_count = 0;
+	if (fs->ref_count == 0) {
 		swim3_action(fs, MOTOR_OFF);
 		out_8(&sw->control_bic, 0xff);
 		swim3_select(fs, RELAX);
-- 
2.19.1



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