Merge branch 'for-linus' into for-3.1/core

Conflicts:
	block/blk-throttle.c
	block/cfq-iosched.c

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/fs/block_dev.c b/fs/block_dev.c
index 1f2b19978333..610e8e0b04b8 100644
--- a/fs/block_dev.c
+++ b/fs/block_dev.c
@@ -762,7 +762,19 @@ static struct block_device *bd_start_claiming(struct block_device *bdev,
         if (!disk)
                 return ERR_PTR(-ENXIO);
 
-        whole = bdget_disk(disk, 0);
+        /*
+         * Normally, @bdev should equal what's returned from bdget_disk()
+         * if partno is 0; however, some drivers (floppy) use multiple
+         * bdev's for the same physical device and @bdev may be one of the
+         * aliases.  Keep @bdev if partno is 0.  This means claimer
+         * tracking is broken for those devices but it has always been that
+         * way.
+         */
+        if (partno)
+                whole = bdget_disk(disk, 0);
+        else
+                whole = bdgrab(bdev);
+
         module_put(disk->fops->owner);
         put_disk(disk);
         if (!whole)
@@ -1272,8 +1284,8 @@ int blkdev_get(struct block_device *bdev, fmode_t mode, void *holder)
                  * individual writeable reference is too fragile given the
                  * way @mode is used in blkdev_get/put().
                  */
-                if ((disk->flags & GENHD_FL_BLOCK_EVENTS_ON_EXCL_WRITE) &&
-                    !res && (mode & FMODE_WRITE) && !bdev->bd_write_holder) {
+                if (!res && (mode & FMODE_WRITE) && !bdev->bd_write_holder &&
+                    (disk->flags & GENHD_FL_BLOCK_EVENTS_ON_EXCL_WRITE)) {
                         bdev->bd_write_holder = true;
                         disk_block_events(disk);
                 }