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Commit bfa10b8c authored by Jiri Kosina's avatar Jiri Kosina
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floppy: remove floppy-specific O_EXCL handling



Block layer now handles O_EXCL in a generic way for block devices.

The semantics is however different for floppy and all other block devices,
as floppy driver contains its own O_EXCL handling.

The semantics for all-but-floppy bdevs is "there can be at most one O_EXCL
open of this file", while for floppy bdev the semantics is "if someone has
the bdev open with O_EXCL, noone else can open it".

There is actual userspace-observable change in behavior because of this
since commit e525fd89 ("block: make blkdev_get/put() handle exclusive
access") -- on kernels containing this commit, mount of /dev/fd0 causes
the fd0 block device be claimed with _EXCL, preventing subsequent
open(/dev/fd0).

Bring things back into shape, i.e.  make it possible, analogically to
other block devices, to mount the floppy and open() it afterwards --
remove the floppy-specific handling and let the generic bdev code O_EXCL
handling take over.

Signed-off-by: default avatarJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Acked-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: default avatarNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
parent 070ad7e7
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