On 2/28/18 11:15 AM, Bart Van Assche wrote: > Hello Jens, > > Recently Joseph Qi identified races between the block cgroup code and request > queue initialization and cleanup. This patch series address these races. > > This patch series is structured as follows: > - Patches 3..6 fix the aforementioned races. > - Patches 1..3 ensure that all maintained block drivers delete the gendisk > before cleaning up the request queue because patches 3..6 are only safe > if block driver shutdown uses this order. The gdrom driver (Sega Dreamcast > GD-ROM driver) has not been modified because from what I saw in the changelog > of this driver it seems to me like that driver is no longer in use. According > to what I found on the web production of Sega Dreamcast was stopped in 2001 > (https://www.theguardian.com/business/2001/feb/01/4). > > Please consider these patches for kernel v4.17. Didn't Ming ack the first three? -- Jens Axboe
