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-rw-r--r--block/partitions/core.c10
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/block/partitions/core.c b/block/partitions/core.c
index e62a98a8eeb7..5a18c8edabbc 100644
--- a/block/partitions/core.c
+++ b/block/partitions/core.c
@@ -278,6 +278,15 @@ static void hd_struct_free_work(struct work_struct *work)
{
struct hd_struct *part =
container_of(to_rcu_work(work), struct hd_struct, rcu_work);
+ struct gendisk *disk = part_to_disk(part);
+
+ /*
+ * Release the disk reference acquired in delete_partition here.
+ * We can't release it in hd_struct_free because the final put_device
+ * needs process context and thus can't be run directly from a
+ * percpu_ref ->release handler.
+ */
+ put_device(disk_to_dev(disk));
part->start_sect = 0;
part->nr_sects = 0;
@@ -293,7 +302,6 @@ static void hd_struct_free(struct percpu_ref *ref)
rcu_dereference_protected(disk->part_tbl, 1);
rcu_assign_pointer(ptbl->last_lookup, NULL);
- put_device(disk_to_dev(disk));
INIT_RCU_WORK(&part->rcu_work, hd_struct_free_work);
queue_rcu_work(system_wq, &part->rcu_work);