On Wed, Dec 06, 2023 at 12:50:38PM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > This was added because pulling a mounted a USB thumb drive (or a HDD > drops off the SATA bus) while the file system is mounted and actively > in use, would result in a kernel OOPS. If that's no longer true, > that's great, but it would be good to test to make sure this is the > case.... And, surprise, surprise - that didn't just affect ext4. So I ended up fixing this properly in the block layer. > If we really want to remove it, I'd suggest doing this as a separate > commit, so that after we see syzbot reports, or users complaining > about kernel crashes, we can revert the removal if necessary. Yes, this should of course be separate, well documented commit.
