block: add a __disk_get_part helper

This helper allows looking up a partion under RCU protection without
grabbing a reference to it.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <[e-mail]>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[e-mail]>

block/blk.h

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 		e->type->ops.sq.elevator_deactivate_req_fn(q, rq);
 }
 
+struct hd_struct *__disk_get_part(struct gendisk *disk, int partno);
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_FAIL_IO_TIMEOUT
 int blk_should_fake_timeout(struct request_queue *);
 ssize_t part_timeout_show(struct device *, struct device_attribute *, char *);

block/genhd.c

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 	}
 }
 
+struct hd_struct *__disk_get_part(struct gendisk *disk, int partno)
+{
+	struct disk_part_tbl *ptbl = rcu_dereference(disk->part_tbl);
+
+	if (unlikely(partno < 0 || partno >= ptbl->len))
+		return NULL;
+	return rcu_dereference(ptbl->part[partno]);
+}
+
 /**
  * disk_get_part - get partition
  * @disk: disk to look partition from
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  */
 struct hd_struct *disk_get_part(struct gendisk *disk, int partno)
 {
-	struct hd_struct *part = NULL;
-	struct disk_part_tbl *ptbl;
-
-	if (unlikely(partno < 0))
-		return NULL;
+	struct hd_struct *part;
 
 	rcu_read_lock();
-
-	ptbl = rcu_dereference(disk->part_tbl);
-	if (likely(partno < ptbl->len)) {
-		part = rcu_dereference(ptbl->part[partno]);
-		if (part)
-			get_device(part_to_dev(part));
-	}
-
+	part = __disk_get_part(disk, partno);
+	if (part)
+		get_device(part_to_dev(part));
 	rcu_read_unlock();
 
 	return part;