On Wed, Mar 04, 2020 at 02:37:38PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote: > Hi! > > On Mon 02-03-20 11:55:44, He Zhe wrote: > > Since the following commit > > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux-block.git/commit/?h=for-5.5/disk-revalidate&id=6917d0689993f46d97d40dd66c601d0fd5b1dbdd > > until now(v5.6-rc4), > > > > If we start udisksd service of systemd(v244), systemd-udevd will scan > > /dev/hdc (the cdrom device created by default in qemu(v4.2.0)). > > systemd-udevd will endlessly run and cause OOM. > > Thanks for report! The commit you mention has this: > > There is a small behavior change in that we now send the kevent change > notice also if we were not invalidating but no partitions were found, which > seems like the right thing to do. > > And apparently this confuses systemd-udevd because it tries to open > /dev/hdc in response to KOBJ_CHANGE event on that device and the open calls > rescan_partitions() which generates another KOBJ_CHANGE event. So I'm > afraid we'll have to revert to the old behavior of not sending KOBJ_CHANGE > event when there are no partitions found. Christoph? Looks like it. Let me figure out how to best do that.