There is nothing preventing an ioctl from trying do delete partition concurrenly with del_gendisk, so take open_mutex to serialize against that. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> --- block/genhd.c | 4 ++++ block/partitions/core.c | 2 ++ 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/block/genhd.c b/block/genhd.c index 8303ec67fd7099..e3f3c2321773f9 100644 --- a/block/genhd.c +++ b/block/genhd.c @@ -680,7 +680,11 @@ void del_gendisk(struct gendisk *disk) * disk is marked as dead (GENHD_FL_UP cleared). */ down_write(&bdev_lookup_sem); + + mutex_lock(&disk->part0->bd_mutex); blk_drop_partitions(disk); + mutex_unlock(&disk->part0->bd_mutex); + fsync_bdev(disk->part0); __invalidate_device(disk->part0, true); diff --git a/block/partitions/core.c b/block/partitions/core.c index 536f7c5bb0b6d2..9fbaec466b516d 100644 --- a/block/partitions/core.c +++ b/block/partitions/core.c @@ -531,6 +531,8 @@ void blk_drop_partitions(struct gendisk *disk) struct disk_part_iter piter; struct block_device *part; + lockdep_assert_held(&disk->part0->bd_mutex); + disk_part_iter_init(&piter, disk, DISK_PITER_INCL_EMPTY); while ((part = disk_part_iter_next(&piter))) delete_partition(part); -- 2.30.1