On 11/24/2015 03:13 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
What sort of re-registration is this? Seems like we should only
release the minor number once the bdi is released.
Hello Christoph,
As you most likely know the BDI device name for disks is based on the
device major and minor number:
$ ls -l /dev/sda
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 0 Nov 24 14:53 /dev/sda
$ ls -l /sys/block/sda/bdi
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Nov 24 15:17 /sys/block/sda/bdi ->
../../../../../../../../virtual/bdi/8:0
So if a driver stops using a (major, minor) number pair and the same
device number is reused before the bdi device has been released the
warning mentioned in the patch description at the start of this thread
is triggered. This patch fixes that race by removing the bdi device from
sysfs during the __scsi_remove_device() call instead of when the bdi
device is released.
Bart.
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