Re: [PATCH] fs,block: get holder during claim

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On Fri, Mar 15, 2024 at 02:23:07PM +0100, Christian Brauner wrote:
> Now that we open block devices as files we need to deal with the
> realities that closing is a deferred operation. An operation on the
> block device such as e.g., freeze, thaw, or removal that runs
> concurrently with umount, tries to acquire a stable reference on the
> holder. The holder might already be gone though. Make that reliable by
> grabbing a passive reference to the holder during bdev_open() and
> releasing it during bdev_release().

Looks good:

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>

does bcachefs also need a fix for it's holder ops?  Or does it get to
keep the pieces as it has it's own NULL holder_ops and obviously doens't
care about getting any of this right?




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