Hi folks, Recently we've met a problem [1] with the kernel ceph client/rbd. Writing to /sys/bus/rbd/add_single_major in some cases can take a lot of time, so on the userspace side we had a timeout and sent a fatal signal to the rbd map process to interrupt the process. And this working perfectly well, but then it's impossible to perform rbd map again cause we are always getting EBLOCKLISTED error. We've done some brief analysis of the kernel side. Kernelside call stack: sysfs_write [/sys/bus/rbd/add_single_major] add_single_major_store do_rbd_add rbd_add_acquire_lock rbd_acquire_lock rbd_try_acquire_lock <- EBLOCKLISTED comes from there for 2nd and further attempts Most probably the place at which it was interrupted by a signal: static int rbd_add_acquire_lock(struct rbd_device *rbd_dev) { ... rbd_assert(!rbd_is_lock_owner(rbd_dev)); queue_delayed_work(rbd_dev->task_wq, &rbd_dev->lock_dwork, 0); ret = wait_for_completion_killable_timeout(&rbd_dev->acquire_wait, ceph_timeout_jiffies(rbd_dev->opts->lock_timeout)); <=== signal arrives As far as I understand, we had been receiving the EBLOCKLISTED errno because ceph_monc_blocklist_add() sent the "osd blocklist add" command to the ceph monitor successfully. We had removed the client from blocklist [2]. But we still weren't able to perform the rbd map. It looks like some extra state is saved on the kernel client side and blocks us. What do you think about it? Links: [1] https://github.com/lxc/lxd/pull/11213 [2] https://docs.ceph.com/en/quincy/cephfs/eviction/#advanced-un-blocklisting-a-client Kind regards, Alex