From: Jiapeng Chong <jiapeng.chong@linux.alibaba.com>

The blockdev_mnt are not used outside the file bdev.c, so the modification
is defined as static.

block/bdev.c:377:17: warning: symbol 'blockdev_mnt' was not declared. Should it be static?

Reported-by: Abaci Robot <abaci@linux.alibaba.com>
jpg: Remove closes bugzilla link
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jiapeng Chong <jiapeng.chong@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: John Garry <john.g.garry@oracle.com>
---
 block/bdev.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/block/bdev.c b/block/bdev.c
index 353677ac49b3..ced4ac990ec8 100644
--- a/block/bdev.c
+++ b/block/bdev.c
@@ -385,7 +385,7 @@ static struct file_system_type bd_type = {
 };
 
 struct super_block *blockdev_superblock __ro_after_init;
-struct vfsmount *blockdev_mnt __ro_after_init;
+static struct vfsmount *blockdev_mnt __ro_after_init;
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(blockdev_superblock);
 
 void __init bdev_cache_init(void)
-- 
2.31.1

On 6/14/24 2:03 AM, John Garry wrote:
> The blockdev_mnt are not used outside the file bdev.c, so the modification
> is defined as static.

If this patch would be reposted, please rewrite the above description such that
it becomes comprehensible.

> jpg: Remove closes bugzilla link

The above text should be surrounded with square brackets.

Anyway:

Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>