DISK_EVENT_MEDIA_CHANGE is used for both userland visible event and internal event for revalidation of removeable devices. Some legacy drivers don't implement proper event detection and continuously generate events under certain circumstances. For example, ide-cd generates media changed continuously if there's no media in the drive, which can lead to infinite loop of events jumping back and forth between the driver and userland event handler. This patch updates disk event infrastructure such that it never propagates events not listed in disk->events to userland. Those events are processed the same for internal purposes but uevent generation is suppressed. This also ensures that userland only gets events which are advertised in the @events sysfs node lowering risk of confusion. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> --- These two patches fix infinite MEDIA_CHANGE events problem reported w/ ide-cd. I tried an alternate patch to implement proper check_events() for ide-cd but given the deprecated status of ide and the existence of fallback userland event polling, this minimal approach seems better. Thank you. block/genhd.c | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) Index: work/block/genhd.c =================================================================== --- work.orig/block/genhd.c +++ work/block/genhd.c @@ -1588,9 +1588,13 @@ static void disk_events_workfn(struct wo spin_unlock_irq(&ev->lock); - /* tell userland about new events */ + /* + * Tell userland about new events. Only the events listed in + * @disk->events are reported. Unlisted events are processed the + * same internally but never get reported to userland. + */ for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(disk_uevents); i++) - if (events & (1 << i)) + if (events & disk->events & (1 << i)) envp[nr_events++] = disk_uevents[i]; if (nr_events) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
