Re: Linux 2.4.10-pre6

[Stephen Frost]

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* Linus Torvalds ([e-mail]) wrote:
>=20
> Most noticeable (except perhaps for the NTFS update if you're a NTFS user)
> is that the broken bootdata patch that could cause some spurious MM
> corruption due to a double page free of the bootdata got reverted. This is
> the one that caused BUG reports from mm/page_alloc.c..

	The changes to rd.c cause it to fail in compiling.  Following
	is a patch which I believe to be correct.  It fixes the
	compilation problem and the module appears to load, work and
	unload correctly.

		Stephen

--- linux-2.4.10-pre6-orig/drivers/block/rd.c	Sun Sep  9 16:19:07 2001
+++ linux/drivers/block/rd.c	Sun Sep  9 16:06:59 2001
@@ -259,7 +259,7 @@
 			/* special: we want to release the ramdisk memory,
 			   it's not like with the other blockdevices where
 			   this ioctl only flushes away the buffer cache. */
-			if ((atomic_read(rd_bdev[minor]->bd_openers) > 2))
+			if ((atomic_read(&rd_bdev[minor]->bd_openers) > 2))
 				return -EBUSY;
 			destroy_buffers(inode->i_rdev);
 			rd_blocksizes[minor] =3D 0;
@@ -372,7 +372,7 @@
 		struct block_device *bdev =3D rd_bdev[i];
 		rd_bdev[i] =3D NULL;
 		if (bdev) {
-			blkdev_put(bdev);
+			blkdev_put(bdev, BDEV_FILE);
 			bdput(bdev);
 		}
 		destroy_buffers(MKDEV(MAJOR_NR, i));

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