On 7/15/21 8:17 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > xen-blkfront has a weird protocol where close message from the remote > side can be delayed, and where hot removals are treated somewhat > differently from regular removals, all leading to potential NULL > pointer removals, and a del_gendisk from the block device release > method, which will deadlock. Fix this by just performing normal hot > removals even when the device is opened like all other Linux block > drivers. Applied, thanks. -- Jens Axboe