4.4-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Jan Kara <j...@suse.cz>

commit 4b758df21ee7081ab41448d21d60367efaa625b3 upstream.

If blkdev_get_by_path() in register_bcache() fails, we try to lookup the
block device using lookup_bdev() to detect which situation we are in to
properly report error. However we never drop the reference returned to
us from lookup_bdev(). Fix that.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <j...@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Coly Li <col...@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <ax...@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/md/bcache/super.c |    2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

--- a/drivers/md/bcache/super.c
+++ b/drivers/md/bcache/super.c
@@ -1960,6 +1960,8 @@ static ssize_t register_bcache(struct ko
                        else
                                err = "device busy";
                        mutex_unlock(&bch_register_lock);
+                       if (!IS_ERR(bdev))
+                               bdput(bdev);
                        if (attr == &ksysfs_register_quiet)
                                goto out;
                }


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