Re: [PATCH 0/4 v2] BDI lifetime fix

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On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 2:23 AM, Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed 08-02-17 08:51:42, Jan Kara wrote:
[..]
> <DETOUR BEGIN>
> This ordering seems to be the real culprit of the bdi name reuse problems
> Omar has reported? Same as described in commit 6cd18e711dd8 for MD BTW and
> Dan's patch could be IMHO replaced by a move of bdi_unregister() from
> blk_cleanup_queue() to del_gendisk() where it logically belongs as a
> counterpart of device_add_disk(). I'll test that.
> <DETOUR END>

I'd support that change. This is is why I called my fix "brute-force",
it just accommodated the existing problematic ordering.



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