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-rw-r--r--fs/block_dev.c6
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/block_dev.c b/fs/block_dev.c
index fe09ef9c21f3..7a506c55a993 100644
--- a/fs/block_dev.c
+++ b/fs/block_dev.c
@@ -1324,7 +1324,8 @@ static void flush_disk(struct block_device *bdev, bool kill_dirty)
* @bdev: struct bdev to adjust.
*
* This routine checks to see if the bdev size does not match the disk size
- * and adjusts it if it differs.
+ * and adjusts it if it differs. When shrinking the bdev size, its all caches
+ * are freed.
*/
void check_disk_size_change(struct gendisk *disk, struct block_device *bdev)
{
@@ -1337,7 +1338,8 @@ void check_disk_size_change(struct gendisk *disk, struct block_device *bdev)
"%s: detected capacity change from %lld to %lld\n",
disk->disk_name, bdev_size, disk_size);
i_size_write(bdev->bd_inode, disk_size);
- flush_disk(bdev, false);
+ if (bdev_size > disk_size)
+ flush_disk(bdev, false);
}
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(check_disk_size_change);