On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 03:22:51PM +0800, Ming Lei wrote: > BDI is unregistered from del_gendisk() which is usually done in device's > release handler from device hotplug or error handling context, so BDI > can be unregistered anytime. > > It should be normal for __mark_inode_dirty to see un-registered BDI, > so kill the WARN(). > > Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> > Cc: Brian Foster <bfoster@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> > Cc: linux-block@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > fs/fs-writeback.c | 4 ---- > 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/fs/fs-writeback.c b/fs/fs-writeback.c > index a605c3dddabc..5e718580d4bf 100644 > --- a/fs/fs-writeback.c > +++ b/fs/fs-writeback.c > @@ -2318,10 +2318,6 @@ void __mark_inode_dirty(struct inode *inode, int flags) > > wb = locked_inode_to_wb_and_lock_list(inode); > > - WARN(bdi_cap_writeback_dirty(wb->bdi) && > - !test_bit(WB_registered, &wb->state), > - "bdi-%s not registered\n", bdi_dev_name(wb->bdi)); > - > inode->dirtied_when = jiffies; > if (dirtytime) > inode->dirtied_time_when = jiffies; Hello Alexander, Could you merge this patch if you are fine? Thanks, Ming