1 files changed, 7 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/fs/bio.c b/fs/bio.c
index 73922abba83..71072ab9912 100644
--- a/fs/bio.c
+++ b/fs/bio.c
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ static struct kmem_cache *bio_find_or_create_slab(unsigned int extra_size)
 {
         unsigned int sz = sizeof(struct bio) + extra_size;
         struct kmem_cache *slab = NULL;
-        struct bio_slab *bslab;
+        struct bio_slab *bslab, *new_bio_slabs;
         unsigned int i, entry = -1;
 
         mutex_lock(&bio_slab_lock);
@@ -97,11 +97,12 @@ static struct kmem_cache *bio_find_or_create_slab(unsigned int extra_size)
 
         if (bio_slab_nr == bio_slab_max && entry == -1) {
                 bio_slab_max <<= 1;
-                bio_slabs = krealloc(bio_slabs,
-                                     bio_slab_max * sizeof(struct bio_slab),
-                                     GFP_KERNEL);
-                if (!bio_slabs)
+                new_bio_slabs = krealloc(bio_slabs,
+                                         bio_slab_max * sizeof(struct bio_slab),
+                                         GFP_KERNEL);
+                if (!new_bio_slabs)
                         goto out_unlock;
+                bio_slabs = new_bio_slabs;
         }
         if (entry == -1)
                 entry = bio_slab_nr++;
@@ -1312,7 +1313,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(bio_copy_kern);
  * Note that this code is very hard to test under normal circumstances because
  * direct-io pins the pages with get_user_pages().  This makes
  * is_page_cache_freeable return false, and the VM will not clean the pages.
- * But other code (eg, pdflush) could clean the pages if they are mapped
+ * But other code (eg, flusher threads) could clean the pages if they are mapped
  * pagecache.
  *
  * Simply disabling the call to bio_set_pages_dirty() is a good way to test the