Re: [RFC PATCH v2 0/2] block: fix backing_dev_info lifetime

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On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 11:06:53AM +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
> Yeah, so my patches (and I suspect your as well), have a problem when the
> backing_device_info stays around because blkdev inode still exists, device
> gets removed (e.g. USB disk gets unplugged) but blkdev inode still stays
> around (there doesn't appear to be anything that would be forcing blkdev
> inode out of cache on device removal and there cannot be because different
> processes may hold inode reference) and then some other device gets plugged
> in and reuses the same MAJOR:MINOR combination. Things get awkward there, I
> think we need to unhash blkdev inode on device removal but so far I didn't
> make this work...

The other option is to simply not release the dev_t until the backing_dev
is gone.
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