From: Gulam Mohamed <gulam.mohamed@xxxxxxxxxx> When BLKRRPART is called concurrently with del_gendisk, the partitions rescan can create a stale partition that will never be be cleaned up. Fix this by checking the the disk is up before rescanning partitions while under bd_mutex. Signed-off-by: Gulam Mohamed <gulam.mohamed@xxxxxxxxxx> [hch: split from a larger patch] Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> --- fs/block_dev.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/fs/block_dev.c b/fs/block_dev.c index de1a760da62d..577f112c3818 100644 --- a/fs/block_dev.c +++ b/fs/block_dev.c @@ -1244,6 +1244,9 @@ int bdev_disk_changed(struct block_device *bdev, bool invalidate) lockdep_assert_held(&bdev->bd_mutex); + if (!(disk->flags & GENHD_FL_UP)) + return -ENXIO; + rescan: if (bdev->bd_part_count) return -EBUSY; -- 2.30.2
