On Wed, Mar 01, 2017 at 03:29:09PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote: > The problem is writeback code (from flusher work or through sync(2) - > generally inode_to_bdi() users) can be looking at bdev inode independently > from it being open. So if they start looking while the bdev is open but the > dereference happens after it is closed and device removed, we oops. We have > seen oopses due to this for quite a while. And all the stuff that is done > in __blkdev_put() is not enough to prevent writeback code from having a > look whether there is not something to write. Um. What's to prevent the queue/device/module itself from disappearing from under you? IOW, what are you doing that is safe to do in face of driver going rmmoded? -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>
