Use SB_I_BDI_DEAD to prevent dirtying an inode after a del_gendisk() event. WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 2133 at fs/fs-writeback.c:2065 __mark_inode_dirty+0x261/0x350() bdi-block not registered [..] Call Trace: [<ffffffff81459f62>] dump_stack+0x44/0x62 [<ffffffff810a2052>] warn_slowpath_common+0x82/0xc0 [<ffffffff810a20ec>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x5c/0x80 [<ffffffff812831a1>] __mark_inode_dirty+0x261/0x350 [<ffffffff8126d109>] generic_update_time+0x79/0xd0 [<ffffffff8126d28d>] file_update_time+0xbd/0x110 [<ffffffff812e4bc8>] ext4_dax_fault+0x68/0x110 [<ffffffff811f816e>] __do_fault+0x4e/0xf0 [<ffffffff811fc2a7>] handle_mm_fault+0x5e7/0x1b50 [<ffffffff811fbd11>] ? handle_mm_fault+0x51/0x1b50 [<ffffffff810689c1>] __do_page_fault+0x191/0x3f0 [<ffffffff81068cef>] trace_do_page_fault+0x4f/0x120 [<ffffffff8106314a>] do_async_page_fault+0x1a/0xa0 [<ffffffff81902678>] async_page_fault+0x28/0x30 Cc: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx> Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@xxxxxxx> Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: linux-ext4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Suggested-by: Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx> --- fs/fs-writeback.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/fs/fs-writeback.c b/fs/fs-writeback.c index 023f6a1f23cd..33e8b24f78ab 100644 --- a/fs/fs-writeback.c +++ b/fs/fs-writeback.c @@ -2005,6 +2005,9 @@ void __mark_inode_dirty(struct inode *inode, int flags) flags &= ~I_DIRTY_TIME; dirtytime = flags & I_DIRTY_TIME; + if (sb->s_iflags & SB_I_BDI_DEAD) + return; + /* * Paired with smp_mb() in __writeback_single_inode() for the * following lockless i_state test. See there for details. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html